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TOWN OF NORWELL
"TOWN BY-LAW
REGULATION OF ADVERTISING SIGNS AND BILLBOARDS
SECTION 1. Statutory Authority. In pursuance of the authority granted to towns in Section 29 of Chapter 93 of the General Laws, and pursuant to all other pro- visions of law, and without relaxing any restrictions now imposed on outdoor. advertising devices by Sec- tions 29 to 33 inclusive of said chapter or by any lawful state regulations thereunder, such devices are hereby further restricted in the Town of Norwell as provided in the following sections.
SECTION 2. Exemptions. This by-law shall not apply to signs or other devices in or over public ways, de- scribed in Sections 1, 2 or 8, of Chapter 85, General Laws. It also shall not apply to any advertising device legally permitted and maintained on the date of the taking effect of this by-law, until one year after the first day of July next following said date.
SECTION 3. Definitions:
"Advertising devices" shall mean billboards, painted bulletins, poster panels, signs, placards and other out- door units designed to call public attention to the mat- ter displayed thereon.
"Advertising sign" or "sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device.
"Sign-board" shall mean any structure designed for displaying an outdoor advertisement.
"Highway" or "street" shall mean any public way twenty feet or more in width.
"Public park" shall mean a piece of public land of at least five thousand square feet set apart for beauty and public enjoyment.
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"Public reservation" shall mean a piece of public land set apart for recreational use, as a state or municipal forest, as a protection to a public water supply, as a me- morial, or cemetery, or as a place of unusual scenic or historical interest.
"Permitted" shall mean authorized by an official per- mit.
"Display" shall mean to make or maintain visible from any highway, public park or reservation.
"Area" of a sign or sign-board shall mean the area of the face view of the entire device, including all attach- ments except supports and latice at the base thereof.
"Residential district" shall mean any land occupied by buildings primarily devoted or accessory to resi- dence, lodging or farm uses; unbuilt or open land; land devoted principally to farming, horticulture, floricu !- ture or plantations, including the sale thereon of its own products; to the raising of livestock; or to pasturage, forests, wood-lots, parks, public reservations or ceme- teries.
"Non-conforming business" shall mean a business lo- cated in a residential or rural district, other than such rural business as farming or the raising and sale on the same premises of farm, garden or orchard products.
"Lawful sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising de- vice not prohibited by any provision of law or by any lawful state regulation.
"Accessory sign" shall mean any outdoor advertising device which carries only advertisements strictly inci- dental and subordinate to a principal use of the prem- ises on which it is located, including signs indicating business transacted or goods sold or produced on the premises or an occupant thereof, but not including any sign which is rented or controlled by any party except the owner or occupant of the premises.
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"Sign on a wall" shall mean a sign closely attached throughout to and facing with that wall, or on a window or door therein.
"Lot" shall mean a plot of ground containing and de- voted to the purposes of a building, or laid out to con- tain a building, with all required open spaces; or a tract of unbuilt, undivided land under one ownership.
SECTION 4. Prohibitions. No person, firm, associa- tion or corporation, except the owner or a tenant occu- pant of the premises, shall be permitted or allowed to erect, display or maintain any billboard or other out- door advertising device thercon except in pursuance of written authority from such owner or tenant and un- less either the name and address of the party holding such authority or a lawful permit number from the state licensing authority be displayed on such device.
· No billboard or other outdoor advertising device shall be erected, displayed, or maintained :
(a) Upon any rock, tree, fence or pole;
(b) Within one hundred feet of any church, pub- lic building, monument or memorial, or within three hundred feet of any public park, playground, or pub- lic reservation, if within view from any portion there- of; except that this provision shall not apply to ac- cessory signs on the walls of buildings;
(c) If it contains any obscene, indecent or im- moral matter;
(d) Unless all parts and attachments and the ground about the base thereof are kept in neat and safe condition.
SECTION 5. General Restrictions. No advertising sign or signboard shall be permitted or allowed to be so located as to obstruct a view between any points on con- necting streets within fifty feet of a corner of the rights
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of way; or to extend more than twenty feet above the surface on which it stands; or to obstruct any door, win- dow or fire-escape on a building; or, if on a roof or wall of a building, to extend above the legal limit of height for such building or wall; or, in a residential district, to extend more than six inches nearer to any boundary of the lot or premises on which it is located than it would be lawful to maintain a building, except as provided in paragraph (c) of Section 6.
SECTION 6. Restrictions in Residential Districts. No person, firm, association or corporation shall erect, dis- play or maintain, or allow to be diplayed or maintained on his or its property, in a residential district, any bill- board or other outdoor advertising device, except de- vices specified in paragraphs (a) (b) (c) and (d) of this section.
(a) Any lawful accessory sign or signs not ex- ceeding five square feet in aggregate area on any one building or lot; or any lawful sign or signs advertis- ing only the sale or rental of the premises, not exceed- ing a total area of ten square feet; or, on the premises of any public building, public recreation ground, farm, garden, tree-nursery or forest, any lawful ac- cessory signs not exceeding all together fifteen square feet in area within the limits of said premises; or any lawful accessory signs on the front wall of any build- ing occupied by a non-conforming business.
(b) Any lawful sign displayed by the town, or any sign displayed by the United States, the state or the county relative to government business.
(c) At any boundary line of the town a lawful sign not exceeding five square feet in area indicating the meetings of any civic organization located therein.
(d) On property owned or principally occupied by a religious, civic or charitable organization, asso-
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ciation of war veterans or the like, any lawful acces- sory sign displayed by written permission of the Se- lectmen, with approval of the inspector of buildings if any, for a limited period not exceeding sixty days.
SECTION 7. Administration. Whenever notice of an application to a state authority for a permit for an ad- vertising device to be erected or displayed in the town is received by the Town Clerk or any other town offi- cial, he shall immediately transmit it to the Selectmen charged with the administration of this by-law. Such officer, or, in the lack of other responsible officer, the Town Clerk, shall thereupon make an examination of the case and, as promptly as possible, within thirty days of the receipt of the application by the town, shall send written notice to the state authority to whom the appli- cation is addressed, stating whether or not the pro- posed advertising device would violate any provisions of this by-law, and, if he finds such violation, specifying what provisions would be violated. In case of such vio- lation, he shall send like notice also to the applicant and to the owner or tenant of the proposed location of the device.
Any person desiring to erect a sign in the town may file a description thereof and of its proposed location with the officer charged with the enforcement of this by-law, who shall thereupon make an examination of the case and shall give written notice to the applicant whether or not the proposed advertising device 'would violate any provision of this by-law, and if so, what pro- vision.
Said officer shall preserve for record all descriptions, notices of applications, letters and other papers re- ceived by him and copies of all notices issued and let- ters sent by him relating to outdoor advertising.
SECTION 8. Penalties and Enforcement. The select- men or any officer charged with the enforcement of this
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by-law shall give written notice of any violation of Sec- tions 4, 5, or 6 of this by-law to the party violating the same and to the owner or tenant of the property con- cerned with orders to remove promptly any device in violation thereof, and shall cause any party who con- tinues such violation for fifteen days after such notice to be prosecuted; shall pursue appropriate legal proc- esses to restrain the erection or maintenance of devices in violation of this by-law and to cause their removal or abatement in accordance with Chapter 93, Sections 29, 31 and 33; and shall also notify the state regulatory au- thority of outdoor advertising of any known violations of lawful state regulations that come to his notice.
SECTION 9. If any provision of this by-law is de- clared unconstitutional or illegal by any Court, the validity of the remaining provisions shall not be af- fected thereby.
SECTION 10. No provision of this by-law shall be construed in such a manner as to be inconsistent with the rules and regulations now or hereafter in force, con- cerning outdoor advertising, of any state authority hav- ing jurisdiction."
(Approved by the Advisory Board.)
Article 19. To see if the town will adopt the follow- ing by-law or some modification thereof for the pur- , pose of regulating Auto-Trailer, Tourist Camp and ·Park Sites.
"BY-LAW, TOWN OF NORWELL
REGULATING AUTO-TRAILER, TOURIST CAMP AND PARK SITES
SECTION 1. For the purpose of this ordinance, cer- lain words and phrases are defined, and certain provi- sions shall be construed, as herein set out, unless it shall be apparent from the context that a different meaning is intended.
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SECTION 2. Tourist Camp and Park Site Defined. A "tourist camp or park site" is any place where two or more over-night cabins, tents or trailers are located, or any premises designed or intended for the purpose of supplying to the public a location for over-night cabins, so-called, tents or trailers.
SECTION 3. Over-Night Cabin, Tent and Automobile Trailer Defined. An "over-night cabin, tent and trailer" under this ordinance are construed to mean any build- ing, tent, or structure, house car, or automobile trailer, used for, or adaptable to use for, living quarters.
SECTION 4. Unit Defined. A "unit" is a section of ground in any tourist camp used, or designed for use, as a location for a single over-night cabin, house car, tent or trailer.
. SECTION 5. Restricted Areas. No tourist camp or trailer parking site shall be permitted to be located upon any land, owned or controlled by the Town of Norwell, except on such spaces as shall be especially provided for the same.
SECTION 6. Over-Night Cabin, Tent and Trailer Reg- ulations. No unit shall contain less than six hundred (600) square feet in area, and no unit shall be permitted to accommodate more than one (1) over-night cabin, tent or trailer.
The provisions of this section shall not, however, be construed to prohibit any property owner, residing upon his land, from accommodating auto trailers of non- paying guests; nor shall they be construed as abrogat- ing the right of any property owner to erect over-night cabins, as they are commonly known, under the above unit rules and under such sanitary restrictions as the town may establish. In such cases permits must be obtained. (See Section seven [7].)
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SECTION 7. Tourist Camp Permit. It shall be unlaw- ful for any person to establish, or maintain, or to per- mit to be established or maintained, upon any property owned or controlled by him, a tourist camp in the Town of Norwell, unless there exists a valid permit therefor granted by the Board of Selectmen and existing in compliance with the provisions of this ordinance. The application for such a permit shall be accompanied by plans of the proposed or existing tourist camp, showing the location of all buildings, driveways, toilet facilities, baths, laundry facilities, slop sinks and other improve- ments, and such permit may be granted to anyone meet- ing the requirements as outlined. A minimum annual permit fee of ten dollars ($10.00) per ten units or frac- tion thereof shall be paid before such permit shall be issued.
SECTION 8. Plumbing and Sanitary Requirements. All tourist camp units shall be provided with a mini- mum for each sex of one (1) toilet, one (1) bath tub or shower, for every ten (10) units, or fraction thereof; a two-compartment laundry tub, a slop sink and a wash basin with running water, for every ten (10) units or fraction thereof.
No dry or chemical toilet closets shall be installed or used within the limits of any tourist camp site and all such closets shall be sealed while within the limits · of the Town of Norwell.
SECTION 9. Garbage. A sufficient number of tightly covered cans for garbage disposal shall be installed. Garbage so collected shall be disposed of daily by the management.
SECTION 10. Limitation of Residence. It shall be unlawful to remain or live in any tourist camp for more than ninety days in any six months period, excepting, of course, bona fide employees.
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SECTION 11. Record of Guests. The manager of every tourist camp shall require all persons using the same to register his name, home address and car li- cense number. Such record shall be available at all times for inspection by the Police Department.
SECTION 12. Lighting. Every tourist camp shall be adequately lighted by electricity.
SECTION 13. The Board of Selectmen and the Board of Health of the Town of Norwell shall have the power to promulgate rules and regulations for the enforce- ment of the provisions of this ordinance."
(Approved by the Advisory Board.)
Article 20. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Accountant to close out the unexpended bal- ances on the following appropriations, the purpose of which has been completed:
Highway, Green Street
balance
$ .14
Highway, Main Street
balance
.45
Highway, Winter Street
balance .88
New School Building Comm.
balance
1.93
Fire Department Equipment
balance
84.86
Total
$88.26
(Approved by the Advisory Board.)
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Article 21. To make allowances to town creditors.
Article 22. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1938, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
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Article 23. To see if the town will vote to authorize the Town Treasurer, with the approval of the Select- men, to borrow money from time to time in anticipa- tion of the revenue of the financial year beginning Jan- uary 1, 1939, and to issue a note or notes therefor, payable within one year, and to renew any note or notes as may be given for less than one year in accordance with Section 17, Chapter 44, General Laws.
Article 24. Will the town act with the town of Han- over to maintain electric lights at the junction of River Street, Norwell and Broadway, Hanover, and at Assin- ippi.
Article 25. Will the town give any instructions to town officers ?
Article 26. What salary and compensation will the town vote to pay all its elected officers in accordance with Section 108, Chapter 41, General Laws?
Article 27. To bring in their votes for a Town Clerk; one Selectman, one Assessor, and one member of the Board of Public Welfare, for three years; a Treasurer, a Collector of Taxes, a Surveyor of Highways, five Con- stables, a Moderator and a Tree Warden for one year; one member of the School Committee for three years; one member of the Board of Health for three years; one Trustee for the William J. Leonard Memorial Library for three years.
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REPORT OF NEW SCHOOL BUILDING COMMITTEE
To the Residents of Norwell:
The Building Committee herewith submits a brief report of its proceedings, the acceptance of which we trust will carry with it the release of the Committee.
After interviews with many architects and visits to other new school buildings, Ralph Harrington Doane of Boston was chosen by the Committee to design and build the Norwell High School. His first plan submitted to us was accepted with very few changes and was sub- mitted to reliable contractors for bids on its construc- tion and equipment. The contracts were awarded as follows :
Irving P. Rocheford, General Contractor James S. Cassedy, Inc., Heating Contractor George A. Beach, Plumbing Contractor Barnes and Pope, Electrical Contractor
The result of their labor is evident to all who have vis- ited the building.
We feel it is a public school building equal to any in a town of the size of Norwell and it is the earnest hope of the Committee that it will be adequate to meet the needs of the High School for many years to come.
At the 1937 town meeting the Building Committee rec- ommended that $2,865. be added to the school budget to purchase new equipment. This released a like amount
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in the New School appropriation budget to be used for changes thought necessary in the construction of the building.
As the building neared completion and new problems arose, it was found that the additional appropriation of $2,865. was insufficient and the School Committee assumed the task of paying for the necessary changes and extra work, out of the incidental account. The fol- lowing is a list of the extra amounts spent.
Mats for gymnasium
$132.00
Extra wiring
62.95
Class room equipment
106.80
Changes in plumbing
107.11
Painting
10.30
Moving and setting flagpole
44.43
Ladders
36.39
Janitor tools and lawn mower
87.56
Rubber mats
25.00
$612.54
William D. Jacobs
Charles H. Pike
Benjamin Loring
A. Ralph Gordon
J. Lyman Wadsworth
John Lind
Nellie L. Sparrell
FINANCIAL REPORT
Ralph Harrington Doane, Architect $6,618.40
Irving P. Rocheford, General Contractor 85,398.01 James S. Cassedy, Inc., Heating Contractor 16,214.36
George A. Beach, Plumbing Contractor 4,366.36
Barnes & Pope, Electrical Contractor 4,394.60
Ida Szydłowski, Land and Buildings 4,500.00
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Charles Pike, Herbert Lincoln, Herbert Robbins :
Insurance and Bonding
$2,209.20
Less dividend 115.50
Net
2,093.70
George A. Beach, Water System
321.91
Henry S. Wolkins Co., Furniture
2,338.00
Charles E. Hale, Furniture
224.00
Aetna Engineering Co., Pump and repairs
156.00
John M. Lind, Surveying
35.00
Spaulding Moss Co., Blue Prints
13.27
Herbert Lincoln, Legal Services
75.00
John B. Washburn, Recording Deed
3.00
J. Foster Merritt, Blue Print
5.00
Mass. Multigraphing Co., Multigraphing Lists
45.61
Franklin Pub. Co., Advertising bids
2.00
Gorham Fire Extinguisher Co., Fire Extin- guishers 136.00
Thomas R. Stearns, Iron Work
94.50
Fred Burnside, Curtains and Drapes
485.00
Charles Williamson, Stone fill in gutters
44.66
Brockton Gas Co., Equipment
428.97
Frank Lind, Janitorship
98.50
Charles Baldwin, Janitorship
473.70
Cities Service, Fuel Oil
670.50
Frank Makowski, Refinishing furniture
284.85
Perry H. Osborn, Digging cesspool, etc.
60.00
Rockland Welding Co., Welding tank
11.00
Fred Litchfield, Moving septic tank
25.00
Phillip Towle, Electric wiring
33.70
Charlotte Weare, Clerical work
19.50
Ruth Lawrence, Clerical work
3.00
The Gow Co., Borings
229.60
Edison Co., Light and Power
97.10
Total
$129,999.80
Appropriation
130,000.00
Unexpended balance
.20
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NORWELL SCHOOL DIRECTORY
School Committee
JOHN M. LIND Tel. Norwell 12-12
BENJAMIN LORING, Chairman Tel. Norwell 67-3
MRS. NELLIE SPARRELL, Secretary
Tel. Norwell 76-3
Superintendent of Schools WILLARD SPALDING Tel. Hanover 91
Supervisors MRS. PANSY STETSON, Music RODMAN BOOTH, Art
School Physician RAYMOND G. VINAL
School Nurse CATHERINE A. ROE, R. N.
School Dentist WILLIS B. PARSONS, D. M. D.
Janitors RICHARD WHITING
FRANK LIND MRS. MARY BRUCE
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SCHOOL COMMITTEE REGULATIONS
Children who become five years of age on March first may enter school the following September.
No child under seven years of age will be admitted to school for the first time after October first of any year.
If there appears to be room in the first grade, tests will be given to children who are too young to enter school. No child may take this test who will not be five before the opening of school.
A child entering school for the first time is required to present to the teacher a birth certificate and vacci- nation or exemption from vaccination certificates. Ex- emption certificates must be renewed every six months.
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MUSIC DEPARTMENT
To the Superintendent of Schools:
The methods of teaching music today are so differ- ent and so varied each child cannot help enjoying the subject. For instance, the artistic side is taught before the technical and many types of songs such as rote, ob- servation, study and sight reading are included.
Rhythm play is a special feature in the lower grades which includes marching, swaying, skipping, galloping, jumping, running, clapping and gliding.
All these movements are taught in time to piano or victrola selections.
More advanced rhythms are taught through simple folk dances.
Description music, recognition of instruments and music forms are taught with victrola records.
Norwell schools really should boast of an instrumen- tal department for bands and orchestras are an impor- tant part of school life in cities and towns throughout the state and many pupils become fitted to play in col- lege bands and community orchestras.
Wouldn't it be nice to have a band and an orchestra in the new high school building where music sounds fine?
Another "Music Festival of the Grades" will be held in May observing National Music Week.
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Our high school chorus is preparing a cantata and the poem chosen is Hiawatha's Childhood by Longfel- low and the music is by Grant Schaefer.
Special choruses have furnished songs for the dif- ferent assemblies held since last September.
Please accept my gratitude for the unwavering sup- port of the school officials and teachers.
Respectfully submitted,
PANSY B. STETSON
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ART DEPARTMENT
To the Superintendent of Schools :
Dear Sir :
The following is my report for the work of the Art Department in the Norwell Schools for 1937.
The schedule given in this department's report for 1936 was followed to the end of the school year 1936-37.
Beginning in September 1937, five periods on Mon- day and Thursday of each school week have been de- voted to art classes in the high school building. The grades at the Center Primary School have been visited, and supervision of Art instruction carried out, on Mon- day afternoons. At the Ridge Hill School the same pro- gram has been followed on Thursday afternoons.
Pupils' art work has been exhibited in the grade schools at special exercises for parents and the public throughout the school year.
. The work of all grades was exhibited at Marshfield Fair. Due to loss of work burned in the fire and curtail- ment of time, no work was exhibited at the Fair in 1936. It was most gratifying to me that after a lapse of a year, Norwell High School took the first prize at last summer's exhibit. The prize money was used to purchase a year's subscription to the monthly magazine, "Art Instruc- tion," for the school library.
Two members of the class of 1937 are continuing their art education, Constance Robbins at the Massa-
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chusetts School of Art, and Lyle Rolfe at the Modern School of Art.
Under the splendid working conditions in our new building the appreciation and practice of good design, form, and color is to become a more important factor in the life of our boys and girls.
I wish to thank the teachers in the grades for their cooperation. I also wish to thank all other members of our system, and townspeople who have shown interest in Art Education.
Respectfully submitted, H. RODMAN BOOTH, Supervisor of Art
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SCHOOL PHYSICIAN
To Willard B. Spalding, Superintendent of Schools:
I respectfully submit the following report as School Physician :
The carly months of the fall term of 1937 were spent in the routine physical examinations. The general health of the students was excellent. All defects of im- portance were scored and notices returned to the re- spective parents wherever attention was needed. Par- ticular note was made towards identifying those indi- viduals who should be restricted in their athletic ac- tivities. There were very few found in this group.
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