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Section 11. Waste Pipes. The waste pipes from traps or fixtures other than water closets shall be of not less than one and one-half inches and when placed under cellar floors shall not be less than two inches. Waste pipes shall not be branched into closet bends, unless authorized by the Plumbing Inspector.
Section 12. Vent Pipes. All traps and fixtures other than water closets shall e protected from siphonage or air pressure by special pipes of a size not less than one and one-half inch inside diameter running direct and upwards through the roof, or to the main vent line above the highest fixture. The trap for the upper fixture shall not require a special vent. Vents for traps shall not be taken off more than nine inches below the water line of the trap. Two one and one-half inch traps may be branched into stack above a water closet without re- venting the water closet.
Traps of half S form shall not have more than thirty inches of waste pipe from trap to vent, excepting where pitch of waste pipe is not greater than one quarter inch to foot, distance may be five feet. Water closet and drum traps may be placed five feet from vent pipe.
Vent pipes for water closet traps shall be of two-inch inside diameter for distances of thirty feet or less and in- creased to three inches when extended beyond this distance. Three water closets may be vented with two-inch pipe, three basins, baths or sinks may be vented with one and one-half inch pipe. The waste from one bathtub may be branched into the waste of a lavatory and said lavatory waste used as a wet
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vent for the bathtub if tub trap is within thirty inches of branch.
The waste from one lavatory may be branched into a first floor water closet vent if lavatory trap is not more than thirty inches from branch nor more than nine inches below water line of trap, the lavatory waste forming a wet vent for water closet.
On roofs used for clothes drying or roof gardens all soil and vent stacks shall extend eight feet above roof.
Section 13. Fittings Not Permitted. No short quarter bend shall be placed at the foot of a vertical soil or drain pipe. No saddle hubs shall be placed on any plumbing. No unions or union ferrules shall be used between traps and drain. All traps shall have their screws below the water line or on the fixture or inner side of the trap.
Section 14. Refrigerator Wastes. Waste pipes from re- frigerators or other receptacles in which food is stored shall not be connected with a drain, soil or waste pipe unless such pipes are provided with traps suitably ventilated and in every case there shall be an open sink between the trap and the refrigerator. Each sink shall be supplied with cold water.
Section 15. Rainwater Conductors. No rainwater conduc- tor shall be connected with the house drain, sewer, or cesspool. No rainwater conductor shall be used as a soil, waste or vent pipe. Rainwater conductors which are carried up within the walls of a building shall be of the material and construction as required of soil pipe. All rainwater conductors must lead out- side the building.
Section 16. Sanitary Drain and Sewers. Sanitary drain from every building shall be connected with public sewer when such sewer is accessible; if such sewer is not accessible, it shall be connected with a receptacle constructed with such material and capacity as the Board of Health may require.
All discharge lines from garages, service pits, and wash stands and other structures where gasoline, naphtha or other inflammable oils or compounds are used shall be provided with a catch basin or gasoline and oil intercepter properly trapped of approved design and so designed as to safeguard against the entrance of sand, oil, gasoline or other inflammable com- pounds into the sewer. This device shall be vented with a separate pipe three feet above the roof. Catch basins or inter- cepters shall have the accumulated oil, gasoline, sand, or other matters removed at regular intervals.
No steam or vapor or water of a temperature over 130° F. shall be discharged into a sewer drain or catch basin, nor shall any material or matter be discharged into any sewer which may tend to cause obstruction of sewer or drain.
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All pressure steam boilers connected to a drain shall be connected to a blow-off tank of a capacity not less than 30% of the largest boiler connected to such tank location and connection to said tank shall be subject to the approval of the plumbing inspector.
No steam exhaust or steam drip, unless it be connected to blow-off tank, shall be connected to any drain leading to sewer.
Every blow-off tank shall be supplied with a vapor pipe not less than two inches in diameter which shall be carried above the roof and above the highest window of the building; discharge from the blow-off tank shall be carried ten feet outside the building before entering the house sewer.
Section 17. Water Closets. No water closet shall be located in any room or compartment which does not contain a window having an area of at least three square feet placed in an external wall of the building or which is not provided with an approved system of mechanical ventilation. Every enclosure, the walls and doors of which extend from floor to ceiling and in which there are one or more water closets or urinals shall have similar ventilation.
Every water closet shall have an individual flush tank of approved pattern or a flush valve protected by an approved vacuum breaker installed between the flush valve and its shut-off.
Floor flanges of water closets, pedestal urinals, trap- mounted slop sinks and the like, shall be bolted to a heavy flange on the end of the waste of soil pipe, the joint made tight with red or white lead or other approved compound or with an approved gasket. A rubber gasket shall not be used. If the waste or soil pipe is of lead the flange on its end shall be of heavy brass soldered or wiped to the lead pipe; if of cast or wrought iron, the flange shall be of heavy cast iron calked or screwed to the pipe.
Section 18. Water Supply. Piping for the distribution of the Town Water supply shall not be connected with the dis- tributing system of another water supply unless such con- nection is approved and inspected by the plumbing inspector.
No plumbing fixture, device, valve fitting apparatus or connection shall be installed between a distributing system of water for drinking and domestic purposes and a drainage system, soil, or waste pipe, so as to permit the back flow of sewage or waste into water system.
Section 20. Protection of Pipes. Drains, waste and water pipes when required by the plumbing inspector shall be pro- tected with insulating material to prevent freezing.
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Section 21. Automatic Clothes Washers. The waste from a washing machine shall not be connected directly to a soil or waste pipe but shall terminate in an open trapped pipe or fixture above water line of clotheswasher; such pipe or fixture shall be connected to a drain or soil pipe running to a sewer or cesspool. The waste pipe from such fixture shall not be less than one and one-half inches inside diameter.
Section 22. Where a tankless heater is used for domestic purposes, a tempering valve of approved pattern shall be in- stalled.
ARTICLE XIV
In the event that any section, sections, part or parts are invalid because of higher constituted authority, then the remainder shall be valid and effective.
A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD Town Clerk.
Boston, Mass.
November 29, 1951.
The foregoing building by-law is hereby approved with the following exceptions:
ARTICLE XIII-Section 3-the deleted last sentence.
ARTICLE XIII-Section 19-in its entirety, which are here- by disapproved.
FRANCIS E. KELLY Attorney General
Article 5. Voted to appropriate the sum of $600.00 from available funds in the Treasury to cover expenses of adminis- tering the Building Code, including salary of building inspector, his assistant and the plumbing inspector.
Article 6. Voted unanimously to adopt the following Earth Removal By-Law: "The removal of sod, loam, sand, gravel or stone from single or general residence districts of the Town of Medfield shall be deemed non-conforming use of premises. Such uses shall be permitted only after Special per- mission of the Selectmen, and under such conditions as the Selectmen shall impose. The Selectmen shall grant no such permits as would, in their opinion adversely effect the scheme of growth laid down in the Zoning By-Law or elsewhere, or the economic status of the Town or tend to impair the beauty of the Town or of the district most immediately effected, or develop health or other hazards. Conditions deemed by the
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Selectmen as tending to protect the Town and the district, shall be imposed where needed and made a part of the permit No permit for the excavation or removal of material shall be granted by the Selectmen for a period of more than seven (7) days from the date of issue but may be extended for addi- tional seven (7) day periods at the discretion of the Selectmen. Permit issued by the Selectmen shall only be issued to an owner of record and shall not be transferable.
Boston, Massachusetts
November 29, 1951.
The foregoing By-Law is hereby approved.
FRANCIS E. KELLY, Attorney General.
Article 7. Voted to re-zone to industrial use the section of the Town of Medfield bounded and described as follows: on the northwest, by the railroad tracks of the Woonsocket Division of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad from the intersection of the Woonsocket Division with the Mansfield and Framingham branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad 700 feet in a northeasterly direc- tion; bounded on the southeast by a line running parallel to the Woonsocket Division for a distance of 1000 feet from the Mansfield and Framingham branch in a northeasterly direc- tion; bounded on the northeast by a line drawn from this point to the end of the present industrially zoned property on the northeast line of the Woonsocket Division; bounded on the southwest by the Mansfield and Framingham branch of the New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad, a distance of 1000 feet.
54 voted in favor .- 11 voted against.
Boston, Massachusetts
October 2, 1951.
The foregoing amendment to Zoning By-law is hereby approved.
FRANCIS E. KELLY, Attorney General.
Article 8. Voted to appropriate the sum of $500.00 from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of conducting a Dental Clinic at the Schools.
Article 9. Voted to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz;
Ellen Doyle Lot
$25.00
George B. Herron Lot 100.00
Charles F. Werner Lot 100.00
Joseph W. Wilson Lot 100.00
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James Woodward Lot 100.00 Edgar E. Lincoln Lot 100.00
Joseph Miller Johnson Lot
100.00
Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD, Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts
NORFOLK, ss:
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County, greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, quali- fied to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Wednesday the 3rd day of October A.D. 1951 at 7:30 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:
Article 1. To see if the Town will vote to establish a Planning Board of five (5) members under Chapter 41 of the General Laws, Sections 81A to 81Y with amendments and to vote that the members of the existing Planning Board shall serve as members of the new Board until the next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to authorize the Planning Board, established above, to act as Park Commis- sioners.
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting warrants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 26th day of September A.D. Nineteen hundred and fifty-one.
FRANK G. HALEY WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE Selectmen of Medfield NICHOLAS N. GUGLIOTTA Constable of Medfield
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Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Medfield, Massachusetts September 26, 1951
NORFOLK, SS.
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elec- tions to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by post- ing attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places in the Town at least seven days before the time of hold- ing the meeting.
NICHOLAS N. GUGLIOTTA Constable of Medfield.
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING October 3, 1951
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the meeting was called to order by the Moderator at 7:30 P.M. and after reading said warrant the following action was taken on the articles therein:
Article 1. Voted unanimously to establish a Planning Board of five (5) members under Chapter 41 of the General Laws Tercentenary Edition, Sections 81A-81Y, with all amend- ments thereto, and that the present members of the existing Planning Board shall serve as members of the new Planning Board until the next Annual Town Meeting.
Article 2. Voted to authorize the Planning Board estab- lished under Article 1 to act as Park Commissioners in accord- ance with provisions of said Chapter 81, Section C.
A true copy attest:
CHARLES I. KEIRSTEAD Town Clerk.
TOWN WARRANT Commonwealth of Massachusetts
NORFOLK, ss.
To either of the Constables of the Town of Medfield, in said County, greeting:
In the name of the Commonwealth you are directed to notify and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elections and in town affairs, to meet at the Town Hall, in said Medfield on Friday the 28th day of December A.D. 1951 at 7:30 P.M. then and there to act on the following articles:
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Article 1. To see if the Town will appropriate from available funds in the Treasury a sum of money for snow re- moval, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 2. To see if the Town will vote to transfer a sum of money from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Operating Account to defray the expense of the operation and maintenance of highway machinery.
Article 3. To see if the Town will vote to appropriate a sum of money from available funds in the Treasury for the purpose of purchasing radio equipment for the Police Car, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 4. To see if the Town will vote to raise and ap- propriate a sum of money to meet the expenses of the School Department for the balance of the year 1951.
Article 5. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $524.15 to meet the deficit in the School Cafeteria Account for the school year ending August 31, 1951.
Article 6. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate a sum of money by an appropriation from avail- able funds in the Treasury or borrowing for the installation of an extension of the water main in Adams Street for a distance of approximately 500 feet, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Petition).
Article 7. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars for the installa- tion of an extension of the water main on Nebo Street from its present termination in a southerly direction approximately 2500 feet to serve residences to be erected in 1952, and in order to finance the foregoing to appropriate the sum of $1,000 .- 00 from available funds and to authorize the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen to borrow the sum of nine thousand dollars and issue notes therefor to be paid in not more than ten years from date of issue, or do or act anything in relation thereto. (Petition).
Article 8. To see if the Town will vote to raise and appropriate the sum of $165.00 for the purpose of making payment for the installation of Flood Light Police Stand, Main Street, Medfield, or do or act anything in relation thereto.
Article 9. To see if the Town will vote to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
Joel E. Heard Lot $100.00
Herbert A. Koch Lot 100.00
Joseph L. Marcionette Lot 1000.00
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Margaret Miller Lot Rafaele Mollinaro Lot
100.00 100.00
And you are directed to serve this warrant by posting an attested copy thereof, in the usual place for posting war- rants in said Medfield, seven days at least before the time of holding said meeting.
Hereof fail not and make due return of this warrant with your doings thereon, unto the Town Clerk at the time and place of meeting aforesaid.
Given under our hands this 20th day of December A.D. Nineteen Hundred and fifty-one.
FRANK G. HALEY WILLIAM E. MCCARTHY JOSEPH L. MARCIONETTE Selectmen of Medfield COLEMAN J. HOGAN Constable of Medfield
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Medfield, Massachusetts December 20, 1951
NORFOLK, ss:
By virtue of this warrant, I have notified and warned the inhabitants of the Town of Medfield, qualified to vote in elec- tions, to meet at the time and for the purpose named, by post- ing attested copies of said warrant in not less than five public places in the town at least seven days before the time of holding the meeting.
COLEMAN J. HOGAN Constable of Medfield
SPECIAL TOWN MEETING December 28, 1951
Pursuant to the foregoing warrant the meeting was called to order at 7:30 P.M. by the Moderator and after reading said warrant the following action was taken on the articles therein:
Article 1. Voted to appropriate from available funds in the Treasury the sum of $1,200.00 for Snow Removal.
Article 2. Voted to transfer the sum of $3,000.00 from the Road Machinery Fund to the Highway Operating Account to defray the expense of the operation and maintenance of highway machinery.
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Article 3. Voted that this article be dismissed wherein a sum of money for the purchase of radio equipment for the Police Car was asked.
Article 4. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $2,449.01 to meet the expenses of the School Department for the balance of the year 1951.
Article 5. Voted to raise and appropriate the sum of $524.15 to meet the deficit in the School Cafeteria Account for the year ending August 31, 1951.
Article 6. Voted unanimously to appropriate the sum of $2,750.00 for the purpose of installing an 8 inch water main extension on Adams Street for a distance of approximately 500 feet in a northerly direction. To meet such appropriation the Treasurer with the approval of the Selectmen be and is hereby authorized to borrow in accordance with Chapter 44, General Laws. the sum of $2,000.00 and to issue bonds or notes of the Town therefor. Such bonds or notes to be paid in not more than two years from date of issue of the first bond or note or at such earlier time as the Treasurer and the Selectmen may determine. The balance of $750.00 to be appropriated from available funds in the Treasury.
Article 7. Voted against appropriating the sum of $10,- 000.00 for a 2500 foot water main extension on Nebo Street.
10 voted in favor. 28 voted against.
Article 8. Voted that this article be dismissed wherein the sum of $165.00 was asked for payment of the installation of the Police Stand Flood Light on Main Street.
Article 9. Voted to accept the following named sums as Perpetual Trust Funds for the care of lots in the Vine Lake Cemetery, the interest thereof or as may be necessary to be used for said care, viz:
Joel E. Heard Lot
$100.00
Herbert A. Koch Lot
100.00
Joseph L. Marcionette Lot
1000.00
Margaret A. Miller Lot
100.00
Rafaele Mollinaro Lot
100.00
Voted that the meeting be dissolved.
A true copy attest:
CHARLES W. KEIRSTEAD
Town Clerk
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January 9, 1952
Mr. Orion Wight Town Treasurer Medfield, Mass. Dear Mr. Wight:
We wish to certify as to the amount allocated to your town for the Norfolk County Retirement System.
As provided for in Section 22, 7c, Chapter 32 of the General Laws, the Insurance Commissioners Department fur- nishes your town with a Pension Cost estimate. The Norfolk County Board of Retirement has supplied the figures for the Military Service Credit and Expense Fund.
This amount should be sent to the Norfolk County Re- tirement System after this has been provided for in your town budget. Chapter 530, Acts of 1951, states that the payment shall be made on or before the first day of July.
Pension Cost
$1,736.00 183.70
Expense Fund
Total
Very truly yours,
$1,919.70 ALICE P. KENDALL, Sec. Norfolk County Commissioners
ASSESSORS' REPORT
Town Appropriations
$316,153.36
Total Appropriations voted to be taken from available funds
In 1950
10,985.00
In 1951
10,317.83
$337,456.19
State Tax and Assessments:
State Parks and Reservations $550.29
State Parks and Reservations-under- estimate 1950
115.65
State Audit of Municipal Accounts
63.04
North Reading Sanitarium-Under-
estimate 1950
2,451.00
3,179.98
County Tax and Assessments:
County Tax
6,022.63
Tuberculosis Hospital Assessment
3,288.75
9,311.38
Overlay of current year
5,965.53
GROSS AMOUNT TO BE RAISED
$355,913.08
Estimated Receipts and Available Funds: Income Tax
$29,342.56
Corporation Taxes
8,979.25
Reimbursement on account of publicly
owned Land 4,734.82
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Old Age Tax (Meals) Chap. 64B-S10
491.12
Old Age Tax (Meals) Acts 1950 Chap. 580 429.73
Motor Vehicle and Trailer Excise 17,690.00 1,599.00
Licenses
Fines
10.00
General Government
914.67
Health and Sanitation
522.14
Charities (other than Federal grants for aid to dependent children)
1,645.55
Old Age Assistance (other than federal grants)
27,939.37
Veterans' Benefits
284.30
Schools
5,344.35
Public Service Enterprises
14,398.45
Cemeteries (other than trust funds
and sale of lots)
382.00
Interest on taxes
713.46
Electric and Gas Tax
.82
Total Estimated Receipts
$115,421.59
Overestimates
County Tax
325.33
Amounts voted to be taken from Avail-
able Funds:
September 6, 1950
5,000.00
October 3, 1950
1,600.00
October 3, 1950
1,000.00
October 3, 1950
10.00
February 12, 1951
2,800.00
March 12, 1951
400.00
March 12, 1951
12,500.00
March 12, 1951
218.35
March 12, 1951
541.89
March 12, 1951
410.00
March 12, 1951
2,264.65
March 12, 1951
3,502.94
March 12, 1951
180.00
August 2, 1950
3,375.00
Total Available Funds
$33,802.33
Total Available Funds and Estimated Receipts
$149,549.75
Net Amount to be raised by Taxation on Polls and Property
Number of Polls, 950 @ $2.00
1,900.00
Total Valuation:
Personal Property
287,734.00
15,825.37
Real Estate
3,429,781.00
188,637.96
$206,363.33
Betterments
1,953.30
$208,316.63
$206,363.33 1,900.00
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Tax Rate $55.00
No. of Persons assessed on personal property 72
No. of persons assessed on real estate No. of persons assessed on both personal and real estate 222
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Total number of persons assessed Value of Assessed Personal Estate:
860
Stock in trade
$19,100.
Machinery
1,150.
Live Stock
19,754.
All other Tangible Personal Property 247,730.
Total value of Assessed Personal Estate
$287,734.00
Value of Assessed Real Estate:
Land exclusive of Buildings
611,589.
Buildings exclusive of land
2,818,192.
Total value of Assessed Real Estate
$3,429.781.00
Total valuation of Assessed Estate
$3,717,515.00
Tax rate per $1,000-$55.00.
Taxes for State, County and Town Pur- poses including Overlay:
Personal Estate
15,825.37
Real Estate
188,637.96
Polls
1,900.00
Total Taxes Assessed
$206,363.33
Number of livestock assessed:
Horses 30
Neat Cattle
Cows
69
Bulls
2
Steers
2
Heifers
18
Swine
92
Sheep
17
Fowl
2891
All other
1154
Number of Acres of Land Assessed
8062
Number of Dwelling Houses Assessed
725
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Respectfully submitted,
CARLTON W. KINGSBURY, Chrm. JOSEPH S. KENNEDY HARRY E. CONWAY Assessors of Medfield
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LIST OF JURORS 1952
Alley, Willis W. Bell, Alwin
Bent, Dorothy R.
Boyce, Clarence M.
Civil Engineer
Bristol, Byron B.
Contractor
Burgess, James C.
Farmer
Cheever, Charles E. Chick, Fred C.
Broker Retired
Elm Street 12 Vinald Road
Clewes, John
Straw Worker
North Street
Conners, Louis S.
Straw Worker
North Street
Connors, John J.
Farmer
Main Street
Conway, Harry E.
Retired
Harding Street
Coulter, Robert
Foreman
South Street
Darling, Jesse L.
Janitor
121 North Street
Ehnes, Hugo R.
Farmer
Bridge Street
Farmer, William S.
Manufacturer
Farm Street
Frame, James T. Jr.
Salesman
Main Street
Frothingham, William
BBroker
Elm Street
Gronberg, Evelyn
Housewife
Pine Street
Guiney, John T.
Retired
Harding Street
Haigh, Charles W.
Manager-Insurance Hospital Road
Hammond, John M.
Mechanic
64 North Street
Housewife
22 Friary Street
Hennahane, Michael
Laborer
Hale Place
Howlett, Leslie J. .
Bank Personnel
21 Pleasant Street South Street
Kelly, Delmar M.
Dairyman
Kennedy, Francis D.
Retired
Pleasant Street Main Street
Kennedy, Margaret J. Marcionette, Mildred Mckay, Leslie J.
Housewife
58 Pound Street Curve Street
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