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Salaries $ 6,950 00
(Inspector of Buildings, $2,700; Male Clerk, $2,000;
Plumbing and Gas In- spector, $2,250)
Expenses of Building Inspection Department 800 00
Expenses of Plumbing and Gas
Inspector, including printing of By-Laws this year $250 600 00
$8,350 00
Sealer of Weights and Measures
Salary $ 1,000 00
Expenses
500 00
$1,500 00
Outside Poor
Salaries $ 1,400 00
Clerk, $1,000; Town Physi- cian, $400)
Aid and Expenses 22,600 00
$24,000 00
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State and Military Aid
$1,000 00
Soldiers' Relief, Burials and Exemptions
$2,300 00
Printing Town Reports
$3,000 00
Town Insurance
$9,425 00
Workman's Compensation
$1,000 00
Municipal Insurance Fund
$5,000 00
Repairs to Houses Owned by Town
$150 00
Menotomy Hail
· Salaries and Wages
$450 00
Fuel and Lighting
950 00
Maintenance of Building
350 00
$1,750 00
Treasurer
Salary of Treasurer
$2,500 00
Other Salaries
Expenses
635 00
$3,135 00
Collector of Taxes
Salary of Collector
$3,500 00
Other Salaries
1,920 00
Expenses
1,880 00
$7,300 00
Board of Assessors
Salaries of the Board ($1,200) each
$3,600 00
Other Salaries and Wages
5,100 00
Expenses
3,500 00
$12,200 00
Town Clerk
Salary of Town Clerk
$3,500 00
Other Salaries and Wages
2,500 00
Expenses
800 00
$6,800 00
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Vital Statistics
Wages and Expenses $300 00
Board of Public Works
Salaries of the Board $2,000 00
(Chairman, $800; Others, $600 each)
Administration
Salaries and Wages
11,036 00
Expenses
3,264 00
$16,300 00
Planning Board
Salary of Clerk
$200 00
Expenses
450 00
$650 00
JOINT BOARD OF THE BOARD OF SELECTMEN AND THE BOARD OF PUBLIC WORKS
Board of Survey
Salary of Clerk
$500 00
Other Wages and Expenses
900 00
$1,400 00
Wire Department
Salary of Superintendent $ 3,000 00
Other Salaries and Wages
4,400 00
Office Maintenance 524 00
Automobile and Truck Main- tenance 956 00
Maintenance of System . 1,181 30
Additional Fire and Police
Signal System 11,635 70
$21,697 00
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Board of Health
Salaries of the Board
$ 400 00
Other Salaries and Wages
7,405 00
Communicable Diseases
3,500 00
Expenses
2,600 00
$13,905 00
Inspector of Animals Salary of Inspector
$350 00
Cemeteries Salaries and Expenses
$7,000 00
Voted : (Unanimously) That the sum of $351,- 722.25 be and hereby is appropriated to defray Town expenses for the year 1926, to be expended as detailed under the direction of the respective department heads as follows :
On motion of Paul M. White:
Voted: That the salaries of the Town Clerk and of the Collector of Taxes shall be on condition that they shall respectively, upon receipt, pay into the Town Treasury for the use of the Town, all official fees received by them.
Voted : That the various amounts appropriated at this meeting indicated by the respective votes, and not otherwise provided for, be raised by general tax in the current financial year ; and further Voted, that all notes issued under the authority of any vote passed at this meeting shall be issued in accordance with the provisions of Sections 23 to 26, both inclusive of Chapter 44 of the General Laws and amendments thereof or additions thereto.
A motion was made by Earl A. Ryder that the Moderator should be paid $100 for his services during
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the ensuing year. Judge Brackett expressed his sincere appreciation of this motion, but in refusing definitely stating that for a salary to be attached to the office that he would no longer hold the office of Moderator. Accord- ingly the motion was not passed.
On motion of J. William Fellows :
Voted: That Article 45 be taken from the table.
Article 45 taken from the table. (Zoning)
Voted : (Unanimously) Section 13. Semi- Residence, Business and Industrial Districts-In the Semi-Residence, Business and Industrial Districts no story or stories intended, arranged, or used for living purposes in any bu lding or buildings on any one lot, shall be constructed, altered, enlarged, reconstructed or moved so that the total area of the floor or floors in- tended, arranged or used for living purposes on the same general level shall exceed eighty (80) per cent of the area of a corner lot as defined in the building By-Laws of the Town or sixty (60) per cent of the area of any other lot, except that on an interior lot as defined in said building By-Laws, less than eighty (80) feet deep, the total area of the floor or floors intended, arranged or used for living purposes on the same general level may exceed said sixty (60) per cent of the area of such lot by one (1) per cent of such lot area for every two (2) feet that such lot is less than eighty (80) feet deep, but shall in no case exceed seventy (70) per cent of such interior lot area. No measurement of lot area shall include any part of any street or alley.
Article 44 taken from the table. (Amendment to Building By-Laws of the Town of Arlington)
On motion of J. William Fellows :
Voted : (Unanimously) That Section 8, as amended,
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relating to Tenement Houses, Building By-Laws, Town of Arlington, as presented to the meeting be adopted as follows :
AMENDMENT TO BUILDING BY-LAWS of the TOWN OF ARLINGTON TENEMENT HOUSES, HOTELS AND LODGING HOUSES
Section 8
(1) Certain words in this Section are defined for. the purposes thereof as follows :- Words used in the present tense include the future; words in the masculine gender include the feminine and neuter; the singular number includes the plural and the plural the singular ; the word "person" includes a corporation as well as a natural person.
(a) A "tenement house" is any house or building, or part thereof, which is rented, leased, let or hired out, to be occupied, or is occupied, or is intended, arranged or designed to be occupied as the home or residence of more than two families, which family may consist of one or more persons, living independently of each other, and having a common right in the halls, stairways, yard, cellar, sinks, water closets or privies, or any of them, and includes hotels, lodging and boarding houses apart- ment houses, and flat houses. Dwelling houses built in continuous rows of more than two houses, occupied or in- tended, arranged or designed to be occupied as the home or residence of one family or more having a common right in or using in common the halls, stairways, yards, cellars, sinks, water closets or privies, or any of them, shall be deemed to be tenement houses and shall be sub- ject to all provisions of this section.
(b) A "lodging house" or "boarding house" is any house or building, or part thereof, in which six or more
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persons are harbored, received, or lodged for hire, or any building, or part thereof, which is used as a sleeping place or lodging for six or more persons not members of the family residing therein.
(c) A "yard" is an open unoccupied space on the same lot with a tenement house, between the extreme rear line of the house and the extreme rear line of the lot. An open unoccupied space between the front line of the house and the front line of the lot is a "front yard." A side yard shall be deemed an outer court on the lot line.
(d) A "half story" is any story included in the roof of which the floor area of the rooms is not more than seventy-five per cent of the ground floor. A "habitable story" includes basement if occupied by one or more families, except those in tenement houses occu- pied solely by the janitor and his family.
(e) A "court" is an open unoccupied space, other than a yard, on the same lot with a tenement house. A court not extending to the street or yard is an "inner court." A court extending to the street or yard is an "outer court."
(f) A "public hall" is a hall, corridor or passage- way not within an apartment.
(g) A "stair hall" includes the stairs, stair land- ings and those parts of the public halls through which it is necessary to pass in going from the entrance floor to the roof.
(h) A "basement" is a story partly but not more than one-half below the level of the adjacent ground.
(i) A "cellar" is a story more than one-half below the level of the adjacent ground.
(j) A "fireproof tenement house" is one con- structed of fireproof material throughout, with floors built of iron, steel or reinforced concrete beams, filled in
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between with terra cotta or other masonry arches or with concrete or reinforced concrete slabs ; wood may be used only for under and upper floors, windows and door frames, sashes, doors, interior finish, hand rails for stairs, necessary sleepers bedded in the cement, and for isolated furrings, bedded in mortar. There shall be no air space between the top of any floor arches and the floor boarding.
(k) A "wooden building" is a building of which the exterior walls or a part thereof are wood.
(1) The word "nuisance" shall be held to embrace public nuisance as known at Common Law or in Equity Jurisprudence ; and, furthermore, whatever is dangerous to human life or detrimental to health, whatever building or erection, or part or cellar thereof, is overcrowded with occupants, or is not provided with adequate ingress and egress to and from the same, or the apartments thereof, or is not sufficiently supported, ventilated, sewered, drained, cleaned or lighted, in reference to their or its intended or actual use, and whatever renders the air or human food or drink unwholesome, are also severally in contemplation of this Section, nuisances; and all such nuisances are hereby declared unlawful.
(m) The word "shall" is always mandatory and not directory, and denotes that the house shall be maintained in all respects according to the mandate as long as it con- tinues to be a tenement house.
(n) Wherever the words "by-laws," "regulations," "inspector of buildings," "building inspector," or "board of health," occur in this Section they shall be construed as if followed by the words "of the Town of Arlington ;" wherever the words "is occupied" are used in this Sec- tion, applying to any building, they shall be construed as if followed by the words "or is intended, arranged or designed to be occupied." Wherever the word "street" is used in this section, it shall be construed as including
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any public alley, railroad right of way, cemetery or public park, twenty feet or more in width.
(0) The "height" of a tenement house is the per- pendicular distance measured in a straight line from the curb level, or from the finished grade line of the lot, where such grade is higher than the curb, to the highest point of the roof beams in the case of flat roofs, and to the average of the height of the gable in the case of pitched roofs, the measurements in all cases to be taken through the centre of the facade of the house. Where a building is on a corner lot and there is more than one grade or level, the measurements shall be taken through the centre of the facade on the street having the lowest elevation,
(p) "Occupied spaces." Outside stairways, fire escapes, porches, platforms and other projections shall be considered as part of the building and not as part of the yard or courts or unoccupied area.
(q) A "corner lot" is a lot situated at the junction of two streets, each not less than twenty feet in width. Any part of the width of such lot distant more than seventy feet from such junction shall not be regarded as part of a corner lot, but shall be subject to the provisions of this Section respecting interior lots.
(r) An "interior lot" is any other lot than a corner lot.
(s) The front of a lot is that boundary line which borders on the street. In the case of a corner lot, the owner may elect by statement on his plans either street boundary line as the front. The rear of a lot is the side opposite to the front. In the case of a triangular or gore lot the rear shall be the side not bordering on a street.
BUILDING CONVERTED OR ALTERED
(2) A building not a tenement house, if hereafter converted or altered to such use, shall thereupon become
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subject to all the provisions of this Section affecting tenement houses hereafter erected.
ALTERATIONS AND CHANGE IN OCCUPANCY
(3) No tenement house hereafter erected shall at any time be altered so as to be in violation of any pro- visions of this By-Law. If any tenement house or any part thereof is occupied by more families than are per- mitted under this By-Law, or is erected or altered or oc- cupied contrary to law, such tenement house shall be . deemed an unlawful structure, and the Board of Health may cause the building to be vacated; and the building shall not again be occupied until it or its occupation, as the case may be, has been made to conform to the Law.
PERCENTAGE OF LOT OCCUPIED
(4) No tenement house hereinafter erected shall occupy, either alone or with other buildings, more than eighty per cent of a corner lot or sixty per cent of any other lot, except that on a lot less than eighty feet deep, the percentage of lot covered may be increased one per cent for every two feet the lot is less than eighty feet ; but in no such case shall an interior lot be covered more than seventy per cent of its area. The measurements shall be taken at the ground level, except that where the first floor is not used as a dwelling the said area may be taken at a level not more than two feet above the second floor.
No measurement of lot area shall include any part of any street or alley.
NEW BUILDINGS CONSTRUCTION
(5) Every tenement house hereafter erected of three or more stories in height shall be a building of the first class except as hereinafter authorized, provided, however, that in such fireproof tenement houses parti-
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tions, except those enclosing stairways and vertical openings, may be of metal lath and cement plaster on wood studs.
SECOND-CLASS CONSTRUCTION
(a) (Three-story apartment houses.) An apart- ment house of not more than three stories in height may be a building of the second class if the following addi- tional conditions are complied with :
(1) To have not more than 3,500 square feet in area between fire walls and exterior walls; said fire walls to be at least 12" thick if of brick or concrete and 8" thick if of reinforced concrete and shall extend from basement to two feet above roof unpierced for its entire height above basement. In basement small openings for pipes with metal collars on both sides of wall and one doorway not over 3 feet by 7 feet protected on both sides by automatic closing fire doors are permitted.
(2) All stairways leading to cellar and basement shall be enclosed in brick or concrete walls 12" thick with automatic closing fire doors. All partitions enclosing stairways above first floor and all partitions between spaces occupied by different tenants shall be supported on non-combustible framing and built not less than four inches thick if of solid or hollow brick, terra cotta, gyp- sum block or tile laid with broken joints and plastered or with 4" studs nogged with the above material and wire lathed and plastered; not less than three inches thick if of metal lath and cement plastered on steel studs; not less than two inches thick if of solid cement plaster ; or wire glass in fixed metal frames, no lights of glass to exceed 720 square inches in area; or may be of such other incombustible material and thickness as will withstand a one-hour fire test, and is satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
All ceilings and walls of cellars and basements and ceilings of all stairways shall be plastered on approved
.
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incombustible material in a manner satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
All doors leading from hallways and stairways to the apartments shall be self-closing fire doors with metal frames approved by the Building Inspector.
(3) The floor of the front entrance hall up to and including the stair enclosure in the first story shall be of fireproof construction.
(4) The front entrance hall up to the stair en- closure shall be at least six feet wide in the clear and each of the front stair halls, stairways, and landing's and the least horizontal dimension of the space inclosed by the stairways and its landings shall be at least forty inches.
(5) Where a three-story apartment house contains not more than three apartments, the above requirements of paragraph (2) for fire resisting enclosure walls above the first floor, and the requirements of paragraph (3), shall not apply.
(b) (Four-story apartment houses.) An apart- ment house of four stories in height may be a building of the second-class if the following additional conditions are complied with :
(1) To have not more than 3,500 square feet in area between fire walls and exterior walls; said fire walls to be at least 12" thick if of brick or concrete and 8" thick if of reinforced concrete and shall extend from basement to 2 ft. above roof unpierced for its entire height above basement. In basement small openings for pipes with metal collars on both sides of wall and one doorway not over 3 feet by 7 feet protected on both sides by automatic closing fire doors are permitted.
(2) All stairways leading to cellar and basement and stairways between first and second floor shall be en- closed in brick or concrete walls 12" thick if a bearing
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wall and 8" for a non-bearing wall with automatic closing fire doors. All partitions enclosing stairways above sec- ond floor and all partitions between spaces occupied by different tenants shall be supported on non-combustible framing and be built not less than four inches thick if of solid or hollow brick, terra cotta, gypsum block or tile laid with broken joints and plastered or with 4" studs nogged with the above material and wire lathed and plastered; not less than three inches thick if of metal lath and cement plastered on steel studs; not less than two inches if of solid cement plaster; or may be of such other incombustible material and thickness as will with- stand a one-hour fire test, and is satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
The entire building shall be plastered on approved incombustible materials from wall to wall and from floor to ceiling including all ceilings and walls of cellars and basement and ceilings of all stairways in a manner sat- isfactory to the Building Inspector.
All doors leading from hallways and stairways to the apartments shall be self-closing fire doors with metal frames approved by the Building Inspector.
(3) The floor of the front entrance hall up to and including the stair enclosure in the first story and all front and rear stair halls, stairways and landings, above first story, shall be constructed of approved fireproof construction. Stair treads may be of hardwood not less than 2" thick, and wooden sleepers bedded in concrete can be used.
(4) The front entrance hall up to the stairway en- closure shall be at least eight feet wide in the clear, the stair halls, stairways, and landing's and the least hori- zontal dimension of the space enclosed by the stairway and its landings shall be as follows: for the front stair halls, stairways, and landings, not less than four feet and for the rear stair halls, stairways, and landings, not less than forty inches.
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APARTMENTS WITH FIRST FLOOR USED FOR MERCANTILE PURPOSES
(c) Where the lower stories of three or four-story apartment houses are used for mercantile purposes, the floor of first story shall be of first-class construction or the ceilings of all basements and cellars shall be plas- tered on approved incombustible material and equipped with automatic sprinklers and the ceiling of first floor shall be masonry or plastered on approved incombustible material from wall to wall in manner satisfactory to the Building Inspector.
YARDS
(6) Behind every tenement house except those on corner lots there shall be a yard extending across the entire width of the lot and at every point open from the ground to the sky unobstructed. Every part of the yard shall be accessible to a public way and shall be directly accessible from every other part thereof. The depth of the yard shall be measured from the extreme rear of the house to the rear line of the lot. If the tenement house is three stories or less in height, the depth of the yard, in the case of other than corner lots, shall be at least twelve feet and shall be increased in depth one foot for every additional story in height of the building above three stories, and the depth of the yard in the rear of corner lots shall be at least ten feet with an increase of one foot for each additional story.
COURTS
(7)
(a) (Outer Courts.) Where one side of an outer court is situated on the lot line, the width of the said court, measured from the lot line to the opposite wall of the building for tenement houses three stories in height shall not be less than five feet in any part and the depth of said court not more than six times its
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width, and such width shall be increased six inches throughout the entire height of said building for every additional story in height. Where an outer court is situated between wings or parts of the same building or between different buildings on the same lot, the width of the court, measured from wall to wall for tenement houses, three stories in height, shall not be less than ten feet in any part, and the depth of said court not more than three times its width, and such width shall be increased one foot throughout the entire height of said building for every additional story in height. Wherever an outer court changes its initial horizontal direction or wherever any part of such extends in a direction so as not to re- ceive direct light from the street or yard, the length of such portion of said court shall never exceed the width of said portion, and no windows except window of water- closet compartments, bathrooms, or halls shall open upon any offset or recess less than ten feet in width.
(b) (Inner Courts.) Where one side of an inner court is situated on the lot line, the width of the said court, measured from the lot line to the opposite wall of the building for tenement houses three stories in height, shall not be less than ten feet in any part, and its other horizontal dimension shall not be less than sixteen feet in any part, and for each additional story in height of the said building such width shall increase one foot through-
out the entire height of said court and the other horizon- tal dimension shall be increased two feet throughout the · entire height of said court. Where an inner court is not situated upon the lot line but is enclosed on all four sides, the least horizontal dimension of the said court for tenement houses three stories in height shall not be less than twenty feet, and for every story increase in height of said building the said court shall be increased two feet in each horizontal direction throughout the entire height of said court. Every inner court shall be provided with an intake connecting with the street or yard at least three feet wide and seven feet high with open grille
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doors containing at least fifteen square feet of unob- structed openings. The intake shall have fire walls sat- isfactory to the Building Inspector.
(c) (Courts Open at Top.) No court of a tenement house shall be covered by a roof or skylight, but every court shall be at every point open from the ground to the sky unobstructed.
(d) (Buildings on same Lot with Tenement Houses.) If any building, except a one-story garage of first-class construction, is hereafter placed on the same lot with a tenement house, there shall always be main- tained between the buildings an open unoccupied space extending upward from the ground and extending across the entire width of the lot, not less than twenty-four feet in depth. Where either building exceeds three stories in height, the depth of the open space shall be in- creased two feet for each story above three stories. No building of any kind, except a garage as above specified, shall hereafter be placed upon the same lot with a tene- ment house so as to decrease the minimum size of courts or yards as hereinbefore prescribed. If any tenement house is hereafter erected upon any lot upon which there is already another building, it shall comply with all the provisions of this by-law, and in addition the space be- tween the building and the tenement house shall be of the size and arranged in the manner prescribed in this sec- tion, the height of the highest building on the lot to reg- ulate the dimensions.
(e) (Yards not Fronting on Street, etc.) When a tenement house does not front upon a street, a public alley, or a passageway, not less than fifteen feet wide, the requirements of this section as to yards shall apply to the front as well as to the rear of such tenement house. The yard behind one tenement house shall not be deemed to satisfy in whole or in part the requirements of a yard in front of another tenement house.
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(f) (Angles in Courts.) Nothing contained in the foregoing sections concerning courts shall be construed as preventing windows at the angles of said courts, pro- vided that the running length of the wall containing such windows does not exceed six feet.
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