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SEC. 11. No wooden building to be used for a dwelling house shall exceed forty-five feet in height, and no portion of the external side-walls of any wooden building shall be placed at a less distance than five feet from the line of the lot upon which the building is to be located, or within ten feet of another wooden building, except where a brick external wall is substituted for a wooden wall, and of a thickness prescribed for external walls of brick buildings. The brick walls above required shall be built twelve inches above. roof-boarding and covered with stone or iron.
SEC. 12. Party walls and all partition walls of brick, in all buildings other than dwelling houses hereafter to be erected in this Town with external walls not exceeding forty feet in height, shall be not less than sixteen inches thick to the top of the second floor, and not less than twelve inches thick for the remaining height, and, in buildings having external walls exceeding forty feet in height, said walls shall be not less than twenty inches thick to the top of the second floor, not less than sixteen inches thick to the top of the third floor, and not less than twelve inches thick for the remaining height.
SEC. 13. No opening or doorway shall be cut through or formed in a party or partition wall of any building, without a permit from the Inspector of Buildings, and every such doorway shall have its top, bottom and sides of stone, brick or iron, and shall be closed by two doors, or sets of doors of wood, covered with metal, with an air space between them of at least four inches, and said doors shall be hung in wooden frames entirely covered with metal, or to iron hinges in brick or stone rabbets.
PIERS AND COLUMNS.
SEC. 14. All piers shall be built of the best quality of good, well-burnt, hard brick, laid in cement and sand mortar and well wet when laid in warm weather. Brick piers under lintels, girders or columns of brick buildings shall have a cap iron at least two inchies thick, the full size of the pier. Brick piers and buttresses shall be bonded with through courses, levelled and
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bedded, each course, and where their foundations rest upon piles, a sufficient number shall be driven to insure a proper support.
. SEC. 15. Every pier, column, pillar or post resting on the earth shall have a base course of stone or concrete and if supporting walls of masonary, shall have for a footing course a broad leveller of granite or ledge stone, not less than twelve inches wider on all sides than the bottom area of said piers, columns, pillars or posts, and not less than twelve inches thick.
SEC. 16. Every metal column in a brick building shall rest on an iron plate of not less thickness than two inches. Wooden columns supporting girders and floors in such buildings shall rest on inch and a half iron plates with sockets to receive the foot of the columns. Metal columns placed one on the top of another shall have a plate at the top of each column, with pro- jections on both sides to fit into cap and base of columns, to prevent slipping ; and all columns shall have holes bored when and where directed by the In- spector, into and through the shell at right angles to the shaft, so as to show the thickness of shell. All bearing parts of columns and plates shall be turned or planed to true surfaces.
SEC. 17. No roof water from any building shall be allowed to flow over the sidewalk fronting it.
SEC. 18. All brick walls shall be built with proper bond, satisfactory to the Inspector, and all intersections of walls shall be tied together with wrought iron straps every ten feet in height. Floor beams shall be anchored to brick walls on which they rest, and to each other, so as to form continuous ties across the building at least every ten feet.
SEC. 19. All floors shall be constructed to carry safcly the following weights per square foot :
Dwellings 40 lbs.
Mercantile and Public Buildings 100
Storehouses-Machine Shops 200
Drill Sheds, etc. 200 66
CHIMNEYS AND HEATING APPARATUS.
SEC. 20. All chimneys hereafter erected shall be built from the ground, of brick, stone, or other fire-proof non-heat-conducting materials, and shall be built plumb, or nearly so, so as to be self-sustaining ; PROVIDED, However, that brick flues may be securely built into the brick work of the walls of the building to which they are hung, when the walls are not less than twelve inches thick; and PROVIDED, ALSO, that, upon special permission first obtained from the Inspector, other forms of support may be used with such special safeguards as he may require, and provided, also, that the matter of construc- tion of chimneys in small wooden buildings other than dwelling houses, not more than one story and a half in height, shall be left to the decision of the Inspector of Buildings, but must be constructed in accordance with his in- structions and to his satisfaction.
SEC. 21. All brick chimney-flues shall be built of hard burned brick and be smoothly plastered inside with mortar from top to bottom, during the
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course of construction, and also outside below the roofing after having been examined and approved by the Inspector of Buildings; except that exposed portions of said chimneys may be left unplastered upon the outside. Said chimneys shall be topped out with brick or stone, laid in cement, and the topping out shall not have more than two inches projection, unless the bricks are covered by a cap of stone or other non-combustible material in one piece, properly secured and approved by the Inspector; and in no case shall a nail be driven into the masonry of any flue.
SEC. 22. No smoke-pipe in any building with wooden or combustible floors. or ceilings shall hereafter enter any flue except at a distance not less than twelve inches from said floor or ceiling; and in all cases where smoke-pipes pass through stud or wooden partitions of any kind, whether the same be- plastered or not they shall be guarded by a soapstone ring having a thickness radial to said pipe of not less than two inches, and extending through said partition, and in cases where smoke-pipes pass through wood work of any kind in such near proximity to the brick work of the flue that the space between said wood work and flue is in accessible, said pipe shall be guarded by a soapstone ring or thimble, or its equivalent, having a thickness of at least two inches, and extending from the outer face of said wood work to a point at least two inches within the brick work of the flue, in which it shall be firmly sets
SEC. 23. All hearths shall be supported upon trimmer arches of brick or stone, or upon bars of iron supporting a bed of brick work and shall be at least twelve inches longer than the width of the fireplace openings and at least eighteen inches wide in front of the chimney breast. Wooden centering supporting a trimmer arch shall be removed before plastering.
SEC. 24. Brick work back of all grates, fireplaces and ranges shall be not less than eight inches thick, and when it adjoins a wooden or stud partition shall have at least two four-inch walls, with at least a two-inch air space between. No wood work shall be secured to the brick work of any flue. Open fire-places shall have fire-proof foundations.
SEC. 25. (a). No furnace or range set in masonry shall hereafter be- placed, or its location changed in any building, without a permit from the Inspector of Buildings, who shall prescribe such regulation for the setting or placing thereof as in his judgment the public safety may require.
(b). The top of every heating furnace or steam boiler shall be kept at least one foot below the lowest part of the ceiling or floor next above it and such protective covering shall be placed on such ceiling as the Inspector may require.
(c). All register boxes shall be set in soapstone or similar borders, not less than two inches in width ; said boxes back of such border shall be surrounded by an open space of not less than one inch in all directions, and a when required by the Inspector the timbers and flooring surrounding the boxes shall' be protected by sheet metal as he may direct.
(d). All elevator wells and light shafts, unless built of brick, must be filled in flush between the wooden studs with fire-proof materials, or lined with metal or plastered on metallic lathing, as may be directed by the Inspector, and all wood work inside of such wells or shaft be lined with tin plate lock- jointed.
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(e). Where floor beams rest on partition caps or on girders, wall girts or wooden sills, fill in between such beams, from the caps, girders, girts or sills to the lining floor above, solid with brick and mortar or other fire-proof material.
(f). When floor beams in frame buildings rest on ledger boards, fire- stop thoroughly at each floor, with brick and mortar resting on bridging pieces cut in between the studs, or, where practicable, on the ends of lining floor.
(g). In brick buildings the space between the furrings on the out- side walls or brick partitions should be filled flush with mortar for a space of five inches in width above and below the floor beams of each story.
(h). Where basement or other flights of stairs are enclosed by par- titions of brick or wood, the spaces between the studs or wall furrings must be so fire-stopped with brick or mortar as to effectually prevent any fire from passing up between such studs or furring back of the stair stringers.
(i). All flights of stairs between two floors must have two smoke stops built between the stringers and properly constructed.
(j). No pipes for conveying hot air or steam must be placed nearer than one inch to any wood work unless protected to the satisfaction of the Inspector by suitable guards or casings of incombustible material.
(k). No wooden flue or air duct of any description can be used for heating or ventilating purposes, except cold air inlets to heating ap- paratus.
(!). A space of at least one inch to be left between all wood work and the chimneys, also around all hot-air, steam and hot-water pipes; these spaces around chimneys and pipes, where they pass through floors, to be stopped with metal or other fireproof material, smoke-tight. Steam and hot-water pipes to have metal sleeves and collars.
(m). All channels and pockets for gas, water and soil-pipes to be made smoke-tight at each floor.
(n). The space around all metal or brick ventilating ducts must be fire- stopped at each floor, with metal or other fire-proof material, as approved by the Inspector.
(o). Where a building is occupied above the first floor for tenements or a lodging-house, and the lower story is occupied for stores, or other purposes not connected with the upper floors, the stairways leading to such upper floors must be enclosed with brick walls or with wooden partitions filled solid with brick laid in mortar, or other fire-proof material, and plastered on both sides on metallic lathing, and all doors in such partition covered with tin plate, lock-jointed.
The provisions of paragraphs d, e, f, h, i, k, m, n, shall not apply to any wooden dwelling house when occupied by only one family and which is situated more than twenty-five feet from any other building.
SEC. 26. No bay window, balcony or other projections, except cornices, shall be built upon the front wall of any building so as to project over the line of the street, except upon written permit of the Selectmen.
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SAFEGUARDS DURING BUILDING OPERATIONS.
SEC. 27. Whenever any person is about to erect or alter the exterior walls of a building, within five feet of the line of a street, he shall cause the portion of the site of the building bordering upon the street to be enclosed by a proper fence not less than four feet high, and at least five feet from the line of such building; and the fence shall be made as much higher as the Inspector of Buildings shall direct, and the same shall be maintained until all liability to accident from falling material ceases; he shall also maintain a proper walk satisfactory to the Inspector, around said fence, as long as the sidewalk is obstructed, and he shall maintain proper lights, if so required by the Inspector at both ends of such enclosed space from sunset to sunrise. In erecting any building, no person shall place, deposit or suffer to remain in any street or highway any lumber or other building material, rubbish or remains of any old building, for a longer period than may be necessary for the work which may be going on ; and in case such material, rubbish, or remains of an old building, shall necessarily remain after dark, a sufficient light shall . be placed over or near the same, and kept from sunset to sunrise. All rubbish from the erecting or repairing of any building, or the removal of an old building shall be carried away by the person so erecting or repairing or removing such building, at such time as the Superintendent of Streets may direct ; and in case of neglect or refusal so to do, it shall be removed by the Superintendent of Streets, at the expense of such person. Any person violating any provision of this section shall be liable to a penalty of five dollars.
SEC. 23. Proper plans shall be prepared under direction of the Select- men showing a proper numbering of buildings on all streets of the Town and the Inspector shall send to the owner or person having control of every new building a written notice stating the number assigned by the Selectmen to such building, and directing that the said number be affixed or inscribed in a proper place on said building, and all other numbers, if any, removed within one week from the receipt of notice. Whenever a building fronting on a street is found not having a number, or having a wrong number affixed or inscribed on it, then Inspector shall send a similar notice to the owner or person having control of it. Any owner or person in control of such building refusing or neglecting to comply with the directions contained in any such notice shall be liable to a fine of not more than twenty dollars. .
SEC. 29. All questions as to the intent and meaning of the by-laws re- lating to the construction of buildings shall be decided by the Inspector, provided that any person dissatisfied with or aggrieved by any require- . ment or decision of the Inspector may appeal to the Selectmen and their decision, after a hearing at which the Inspector shall be given an oppor- tunity to be heard, shall be final.
SEC. 30. In these by-laws the following terms shall have the mnean- ings respectively assigned to them :-
" Alteration " means any change or addition.
" Cellar " means a basement or lower story of which one-half or more of the height from the floor to the ceiling is below the level of the land adjoining.
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" Foundation " means that portion of a wall below the level of the street curb, and where the wall is not on a street, that portion of the wall below the level of the highest ground next to the wall; but if under party or partition walls may be constructed by the Inspector to mean that portion below the cellar floor.
" Chimney " shall apply to any permanent or fixed flues or passages built into any building for conveying a way the products of combustion from furnaces, stoves, boilers, ranges or fire-places.
"Inspector " means the Inspector of Buildings of the Town of Arlington.
"Party wall" means every wall used, or built in order to be used, as a separation of two or more buildings.
" Partition wall" means any interior wall of masonry in a building.
" External wall " means every outer wall or vertical enclosure of a build- ing other than a party wall.
" Repairs " means the reconstruction or renewal of any existing part of a building or of its fixtures or appurtenances, by which the strength or fire-risk is not affected or modified, and not made in the opinion of the Inspector for the purpose of converting the building in whole or in part to a new use.
" Tenement house" means a building which, or any portion of which, is occupied, or intended to be occupied, as a dwelling by more than three families living independently of one another and doing their cooking upon the premises; or by more than two families above the second floor, so living and cooking.
"Thickness" of a wall means the minimum of thickness of such wall. SEC. 31. Whoever violates any of the provisions of these by-laws shall be liable to a penalty of not more than one hundred dollars unless another penalty is specifically provided herein.
SEC. 32. The provisions of these by-laws shall not apply to buildings and structures owned or occupied by the United States or by the State of Mass- achusetts, nor to bridges.
FIRE LIMITS.
All buildings hereinafter built or enlarged, fronting on the following street described lines, shall be built of brick, stone or other incombustible material : Beginning at the north-easterly corner of Swan and Pleasant streets, thence running north-easterly to the south-easterly corner of Pleasant street and Massachusetts Avenue; thence south-easterly on the southerly line of Mass- achusetts avenue, to a point opposite the Soldiers' Monument. Beginning again at a point in the northerly line of Broadway opposite the Soldiers' Monument and running north-westerly along the north-easterly lines of Broadway and Massachusetts avenue to Central street.
ARLINGTON TOWN RECORDS FOR THE MUNICIPAL YEAR 1906.
TOWN MEETING, MARCH 5, 1906.
TOWN WARRANT.
COMMONWEALTH OF MASSACHUSETTS. MIDDLESEX SS.
To Garritt Barry, A Constable of the Town of Arlington, in said County. GREETING :
In the name of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, you are here- by required to notifiy and warn the inhabitants of the Town of Ar- lington, who are qualified to vote in elections and Town affairs, to assemble in the Town Hall on Monday, the fifth day of March, next, at 6.00 A. M., then and there to act on the following articles, viz :
ARTICLE 1. To choose a Moderator to preside at said meeting.
ART. 2. To elect by ballot the following town officers,-a Town clerk, for one year; a Town Treasurer for one year; a Town Collector for one year; an Auditor for one year; two Selectmen for one year; one Assessor for three years; three members of the School Committee for three years; one member of the Board of Trustees of the Pratt Fund for five years ; one member of the Board of Commissioners of the Sinking Fund for three years ; two Trustees of the Robbins Library for three years ; one member of the Consolidated Board of Trustees of the Robbins Fund, Soldiers Monu- ment Fund and Trustees of Cemeteries, for three years ; five Constables for one year; one Park Commissioner for three years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; one Tree Warden for one year ; three members of the Board of Public Works for one year. Also to choose or appoint all the other usual Town Officers in such manner as the Town may determine. Also, upon the same ballot to vote "Yes" or "No" upon the question, "Shall licenses be granted for the sale of intoxicating liquors in this town ?" For these pur- poses the polls will be opened as soon as possible after the organiza- tion of the meeting and kept open until five o'clock, P. M.
ART. 3. To hear and act on the reports of the Selectmen and . other Town Officers and Committees heretofore appointed.
ART. 4. To act on the list of Jurors as revised by the Select- men.
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ART. 5. To make an appropriation for the Robbins Library for the ensuing year.
ART. 6. To make an appropriation for the Public Schools for the ensuing year, and determine in what manner the same shall be expended.
ART. 7. To determine in what manner the town ways, high- ways and bridges shall be repaired the ensuing year.
ART. S. To determine what sum of money the Town will raise by general tax, to defray Town expenses, interest, debt, and State Aid, and make an appropriation for the same.
ART. 9. To see if the town will appoint the Selectmen Agents of the Town, to institute and prosecute actions in favor of the Town, and appear and defend suits and legal proceedings against or involving the interests of the Town, with power to employ counsel therein and, when necessary, in all other legal mat- ters and business appertaining to Town affairs during the year com- mencing March 5, 1906.
ART. 10. To see what action the Town will take in relation to the appointment of a Committee of Twenty-One for the ensuing year.
ART. 11. To see if the town will appropriate the sum of $275.00 for the proper observance of Memorial Day, the same to be ex- pended under the direction of Francis Gould Post 36, G. A. R.
(Inserted at request of Henry Bradley and others.)
ART. 12. To see if the Town will appropriate for the work of at- tempting to suppress the gypsy and brown-tail moths, their eggs, pupae and nests, whatever sums of money are received by the Town from the owners of lands infested with said moths for such work done on said lands.
ART. 13. To see if the Town will appoint a committee to revise the Town by-laws and make additions to or changes in said by-laws and report to the Town its recommendations.
ART. 14. To see if the Town will accept the provisions of Chap- ter 191 of the Acts of the year 1905, being an act to authorize cities and towns to establish municipal building insurance funds and make an appropriation, to establish a municipal building insurance fund.
ART. 15. To see if the Town will vote to discontinue or author- ize the Selectmen to discontinue all town fire insurance, or take any . action in relation thereto.
ART. 16. To see if the Town will designate some board or pub- lic officer, other than the Board of Selectmen, to destroy the eggs, pupae and nests of the gypsy and brown-tail moths, under the gen- eral direction of the State Superintendent.
ART. 17. To see if the Town will appropriate $7,000, in accord- ance with the vote passed December 6, 1904, for water used for fire hydrants, street watering and public buildings for the ensuing year.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
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ART. 18. To see what action the Town will take in regard to the extension of water mains and make an appropriation for the same.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
ART. 19. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for street watering.
(Inserted by request of Joint Board.)
ART. 20. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the Town's share for the constructon and repair of permanent sidewalks.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
ART. 21. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the maintenance and extension of the Sewerage System for the ensuing year.
(Inserted at the request of the Board of Public Works.)
ART. 22. To see if the Town will make an appropriation for the. use of the Highway Division.
ART. 23. To see if the Town will authorize its Board of Public Works, in the name and behalf of the Town, to enter into a contract for the sale of peat from that portion of its water supply known as. " Great Meadows," with the National Peat and Fuel Company, for a term of five years, with an option for a five years' renewal thereof, on such terms and under such restrictions as the said Board of Public Works may in its discretion impose.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.)
ART. 24. To see if the Town will authorize its Board of Public Works, in the name and behalf of the Town, to execute a proper lease of the "Pumping Station " land, so-called, situated in East. Lexington, to the National Peat and Fuel Company, for a term of five years, at a rental of $250 per year, with an option for a five- years' renewal thereof on the same terms.
(Inserted at request of Board of Public Works.
ART. 25. To see if the Town will vote to authorize its Collector .. of Taxes to use all means of collecting taxes for the year 1906 which a Town Treasurer may use when appointed a Collector of Taxes.
(Inserted at request of the Town Collector.
ART. 26. To see if the Town will appropriate a sum of money not exceeding four hundred ($400) dollars to be expended by the. Collector of Taxes with the approval of the Town Counsel, for the purpose of obtaining the surrender and discharge of various tax deeds given by the Collector, where, by reason of error, omission or informality in the assessment or sale, the purchaser has no claim upon the property sold.
ART. 27. To see what action the Town will take in relation to. reimbursing Maria W. Hodgdon for expenses incurred in repairing the sidewalk in front of her premises, 454 to 45S Massachusetts Avenue, and make an appropriation therefor.
ART. 28. To hear and act on the report of the Committee appointed Nov. 22, 1905, to consider and report on Articles 25, 26,. 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32 and 33 of the Warrant calling the November- meeting, said Articles relating to the By-Laws of the Town.
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ART. 29. To see if the Town will vote to accept Windemere Avenue, so-called, as laid out by the Joint Board and described as follows : -
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