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SECTION 13. Trailer Camps. The foregoing regulations shall apply to trailer camps or parks. The following special regulations also shall apply.
1. Each trailer unit shall have an area of not less than six hundred (600) square feet with suitable markers set at each corner. No unit shall be permitted to accommodate more than one trailer. The minimum distance between trailers, a trailer and a building or a trailer and a property line shall be ten (10) feet. The minimum distance from a street line to a trailer shall be fifteen (15) feet.
2. No toilet installed in any trailer coach shall, except in case of sickness, be used while the trailer is parked in a trailer camp. Sink and other wastes shall not be discharged onto the ground, but shall be discharged into a suit- able receptacle or through a connection with a pipe leading to a sewer, cess- pool or other subsurface disposal works.
SECTION 14. Penalty. Section 32E of Chapter 416 of the Acts of 1939 reads as follows: "Whoever conducts, controls, manages or operates any camp or cabin subject to Sections 32A to 32C inclusive, which is not licensed under
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Section 32B, shall be punished by a fine of not less than ten nor more than one hundred dollars. (July 9, 1940.)
Alcoholic Beverages
The following Rules and Orders regulating the conduct of alcoholic bever- age licenses in the Town of Wilbraham, are hereby enacted by the Board of Selectmen.
ARTICLE I
For the purpose of these rules and regulations the words and phrases used herein shall have the following meanings except in those instances where the context indicates a different meaning.
(a) "Employee." Every person employed by every licensee in any capacity upon the premises covered by an alcoholic beverage license.
(b) "Alcoholic Beverages." Any liquid intended for human consumption as a beverage and containing one-half of one per cent or more of alcohol by volume at 60ยบ Fahrenheit.
(c) "Licensee." Every person, firm or corporation to whom or to which an alcoholic beverage license has been issued and which is in effect.
(d) "Licensing Authority." The Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wil- braham.
(e) "Music." Any music produced by any instrument, orchestra, radio, piano, phonograph instrument and/or any mechanical or electrical device whatsoever.
(f) "Officer." Any police officer, investigator, examiner or inspector of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachu- setts, any constable or special officer provided he is in uniform or has his badge of office conspicuously displayed upon his outer garment and any mem- ber of the local licensing authority.
ARTICLE II
Requirements of Licenses Relative to Inspection of Licensed Premises : SECTION 1. Every licensee shall aid and assist any officer upon any inspec- tion, examination or investigation of his licensed premises or the conduct of any person or persons in or upon said premises.
ARTICLE III
Opening and Closing Hours:
SECTION 1. The hours for serving alcoholic beverages, except as specifically otherwise provided by law, are set and established as follows:
Package Store - 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. (no sales on Sundays or during poll- ing hours)
Tavern - 8 A. M. to 1 A. M. (excepting Saturdays and Sundays) ; 8 A. M. to 12 midnight on Saturdays. No sales on Sundays or during polling hours. Drug - 8 A. M. to 11 P. M. (no sales on Sundays or during polling hours without physician's prescription)
Club -8 A. M. to 1 A. M. (excepting Saturdays and Sundays) ; 8 A. M. to 12 midnight on Saturdays; 1 P. M. to 1 A. M. on Sundays.
Innholders - 8 A. M. to 1 A. M. (excepting Saturdays and Sundays) ; 8 A. M. to 12 midnight on Saturdays; 1 P. M. to 1 A. M. on Sundays.
Common Victualers - 8 A. M. to 1 A. M. (except Saturdays and Sundays) ; 8 A. M. to 12 midnight on Saturdays; 1 P. M. to 1 A. M. on Sundays. (Amended March 31, 1947.)
SECTION 2. No alcoholic beverages may be sold, served or consumed after the closing hours that have been established by either the local licensing authority or the Alcoholic Beverage Control Commission.
ARTICLE IV General Provisions
SECTION 1. No change shall be made on Sundays in the physical appear- ance of the premises (such as putting tables against the bar or making shift tables out of boards and horses).
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SECTION 2. Waitresses are forbidden to sit in booths or at tables, either drinking or entertaining friends or customers.
SECTION 3. No W.P.A. or Relief or Welfare checks are to be cashed by any licensee for the sale of alcoholic beverages.
SECTION 4. Sales of malt beverages by the pitcher are forbidden. No malt beverages shall be served in bottles of larger than twelve ounce capacity. Sales of all other alcoholic beverages must be made by the individual glass. (No three or six for a quarter glasses of malt beverages or combinations of whiskey and malt beverages shall be allowed.)
SECTION 5. No woman shall act as barmaid in any licensed premises unless she is a licensee or wife or daughter of a licensee.
SECTION 6. No woman shall be employed to do any kind of work in any part of a tavern except in the kitchen.
SECTION 7. Any employee of any licensed premises shall, when requested by the local licensing authority furnish a physician's certificate of good health.
SECTION 8. No licensed premises, with the exception of package stores, may display any advertisements of alcoholic beverages in, on or about the win- dows or doors, with the exception of the words "ales, wines, beers or liquors" or some combination thereof. Such premises may have one overhead sign and not more than one Neon sign in each window.
SECTION 9. No window of any licensed premises facing a public way shall be obstructed by any screen or other obstruction rising more than five feet above the sidewalk level. Glass in doors shall not be obstructed in any manner.
SECTION 10. No common victualer who is licensed to sell alcoholic beverages shall carry for sale to the public, groceries, ice cream cones, penny candy or gum.
SECTION 11. Every licensee shall stop or cause to be stopped all music in the licensed premises at 12:50 A. M. No music of any kind or description shall be provided, furnished or allowed in any licensed premises on any Sun- day. (Amended March 27, 1947.)
SECTION 12. Service to female patrons of all establishments licensed for the sale of alcoholic beverages to be consumed on the premises shall be limited at all times to service at tables only. No female patron of any estab- lishment licensed as aforesaid shall be served standing or seated at a bar or counter.
SECTION 13. These rules and orders are supplemental and in addition to the general laws applicable to the sale of alcoholic beverages and supple- mental and additional to the regulations made by the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. All licensees and their employees must be familiar with said General Laws and Regula- tions, as well as with these Rules and Orders.
ARTICLE V Penalties
Any licensee who is convicted by the local licensing authority of any viola- tion of these rules and orders, the General Laws applicable to the conduct of the retail sale of alcoholic beverages, or the Regulations of the Alcoholic Beverages Control Commission, shall be subject to a suspension or forfeiture of his license in the way and manner provided by law. (December 14, 1937)
The following rule and order to be known as Section 2A of Article III to be added to the Rules and Orders on alcoholic beverages adopted previously by this Board under date of December 14, 1937, is hereby enacted by the Board of Selectmen of the Town of Wilbraham:
SECTION 2A OF ARTICLE III. All alcoholic beverages shall be removed from tables, counters, booths and bars by fifteen (15) minutes after the closing hour and all drinking to cease at same time. (October 22, 1940.)
Health
The following Rules and Regulations relative to the collection, removal and disposal of garbage in the Town of Wilbraham, are hereby enacted by the Board of Selectmen.
1. For the purposes of these rules, garbage is defined as the waste prod- ucts or refuse from all vegetable and animal material used for food.
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2. Any person collecting garbage under a permit from the Board of Health shall be subject to all the rules and regulations governing garbage collection and included in the terms of each permit.
3. Persons disposing of garbage on their own property or feeding it to their own stock must take such steps as will prevent said garbage from becoming a nuisance.
4. The Board of Health has applied to the various streets of the town two area classifications for the purposes of garbage collection known as Zone 1 and Zone 2. The areas included in each zone will be announced and redefined from time to time.
Zone 1 shall include all streets or sections of streets for which the Board has contracted for garbage collection for any householder who elects to sub- scribe to the service and meets the requirements herein.
Zone 2 shall be the entire remainder of the Town not included in Zone 1. In order to make garbage collection by licensed collectors available to residents of Zone 2 areas such householders must organize a sufficient group of subscribers to garbage collection to make it practicable for the Board of Health to negotiate with a licensed collector to extend service into such area.
5. Any resident living in an area classified as Zone 1 may qualify for garbage collection in accordance with provisions herein by the payment of $10.00 for any period from six months to one year or $6.00 for any period of less than six months, to the next 1st of August, payable in advance, to the Town Collector. All fees must be renewed on or before August 1st. (As amended.)
6. Each householder availing himself of garbage collection by a licensed collector through payment of fees to the Town Collector as herein provided shall be subject to the following rules, and continued failure to meet such rules, after notice of such failure by the Board of Health shall disqualify the householder from further collection, and said householder shall forfeit any un-used portion of fee paid in advance:
(a) Every house shall be provided with a suitable metal watertight receptacle in which to keep garbage until same is removed by the licensed collector or other person or persons collecting under a permit from the Board of Health.
(b) No refuse, tin cans, ashes, glass, sweepings, oyster, clam or lobster shells, corkdust, old boots and shoes, dead animals, poisonous substances, lawn clippings, or any other foreign substances shall be placed in the garbage receptacle. Garbage containing any of the articles forbidden may be refused by the licensed collector and the householder shall in such case care for same at his own expense, and forfeit any unused portion of fee paid in advance to the Town Collector.
(c) The garbage pail shall be kept in a place on the ground floor easily accessible to the Collector, and precaution taken so that the cover cannot be removed by dogs or other animals.
(d) The garbage pail shall be kept adequately clean and free from ice or snow.
(e) Householders shall notify the Board of Health of any failure on. the part of the licensed collector to gather garbage, and the licensed collector shall notify the Board of Health of the name and street address of any per- sons from whom he refuses to accept garbage, stating the reasons therefor.
(f) Collection shall be made by the licensed collector twice weekly from June 15th to September 15th and once weekly from September 15th to June 15th. Any subscriber discontinuing the service for any reason whatsoever shall not be entitled to any rebate for any unused portion of fee paid. (As amended.)
(g) Violation of these rules and regulations shall be considered as in the nature of a nuisance and will be dealt with as provided by the public statutes.
Special Provision for Summer Residents
On July 26th the Board of Health adopted the following addition and amendment to the above rules and provisions :
Summer residents of the town may take a special summer season sub- scription to garbage collection for the five months beginning May 1st and ending October 1st for a fee of $6.00 payable in advance. This summer sea-
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sonal subscription being the only type of subscription that does not termi- nate each August 1st. (July 26, 1943.) (Later amended.)
Pasteurization Regulation
No person, firm or corporation shall sell, offer for sale, hold in possession with intent to sell, exchange or deliver any milk or cream in the Town of Wilbraham unless such milk or cream is certified according to the provisions of the law, or pasteurized as provided for in section 1 of Chapter 94 of the General Laws. This rule shall not apply to milk intended to be delivered for the purpose of pasteurization. (Adopted April 14, 1952.)
Day Nurseries Standards
The Board of Health of Wilbraham, in accordance with authority granted in Chapter 111, Section 60 of the General Laws of Massachusetts, Tercen- tenary Edition 1932, has adopted certain standards for Day Nurseries within the Town. Although these standards are considered to be minimum require- ments, proof of substantial compliance, satisfactory to the Board of Health will justify issuance or renewal of a Day Nursery license. The standards adopted are as follows:
1. One adult person should be in charge of not more than ten children. Children should never be left without an adult in attendance.
2. Every center should have a physician who shall be responsible for the health program. All personnel should be examined for tuberculosis by an x-ray of the chest before starting to work, by an approved laboratory, and subsequent x-ray at least every three years. Evidence of active tuberculosis in such x-ray should exclude such person from work in a Day Nursery.
3. All personnel conducting Day Nurseries should be approved by the Board of Health with reference to health and social behavior.
4. Age of admission shall be over thirty-two months. Handicapped children needing special care should not be admitted unless the staff includes a per- son especially trained and experienced to take care of them.
5. Housekeeping activities such as washing, dusting or sweeping should not be done during the time children are in the Nursery.
6. No child should be admitted to the Nursery until a physician's certifi- cate has been obtained stating child is free from communicable diseases, has been or is in the process of being immunized against small pox, whooping cough diphtheria and tetanus and is physically able to benefit from the attend- ance at a Day Nursery.
7. Each child should be inspected by the person in charge of the Day Nursery for symptoms of colds, sore throat, inflammation of the eyes, fever, rash, or diarrhea and if any are found, child should not be admitted to the Nursery and should be isolated until satisfactory means for his transporta- tion home shall be made available. A room and bed should be provided for the isolation of ill children until transportation to their homes can be pro- vided.
8. When a child is absent because of illness for five days or more, a physician's certificate for readmission should be required.
9. Treatment of injuries in the center should be limited to first aid pro- cedures as recommended by the Nursery physician. The parents should be informed the same day as the injury occurs.
10. When milk is served, it should be pasteurized. All food served and the method of serving shall meet with the approval of the Board of Health.
11. Records of each child shall be kept available for inspection and shall meet with the approval of the Board of Health.
12. Location of the Day Nursery should not be above the 2nd floor. The basement floor should not be more than three feet below ground level and should be well lighted and dry to the satisfaction of the Board of Health.
13. The floor area should meet the approval of the Board of Health. A minimum of thirty-five cubic feet per child is recommended.
14. Sufficient fire escapes and fire extinguishers shall be maintained to protect the children at all times and should be clearly marked.
15. Sanitation in the kitchen should meet the approval of the Board of Health.
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16. Toilet facilities shall meet the approval of the Board of Health for number, size, cleanliness and location.
17. The outdoor play area should be adequate for the number of children using it. It should be free from accident hazards and exposed to sunlight. Play equipment should be free of hazards and approved by the Board of Health. The Board of Health may require that the outdoor play area be fenced.
18. There should be a telephone available in the home or nearby.
19. Adequate first aid equipment should be maintained and stored safely.
20. Safe drinking water shall be available at all times.
21. Should a condition arise about the Day Nursery or its operation that is not covered by the above regulations, the person in charge of the Day Nursery shall consult with the Board of Health and its decision shall be final. (Adopted by the Board of Health on December 9, 1953, at regularly called meeting at Town Office.)
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TOWN OF WILBRAHAM MASSACHUSETTS ANNUAL REPORT 1955
VRTH MOUNTA I ROAD AER AUGUST FLOOD
CONDENSED ANNUAL REPORT FOR 1955
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"Your Town at a Quick Glance"
COVERS for this Annual Report were furnished with the compliments of J. Loring Brooks, Jr. Lithographed by the Brooks Company, Inc.
The largest washout in our town was that of the Viaduct of the Boston and Albany Railroad over Nine Mile Brook. This cavity required 100,000 cubic yards of fill together with 2,600 cubic yards of concrete and 280 tons of reinforcing
steel. The E. T. O'Neill & Son Construction Corporation of Holyoke worked around the clock for two weeks. Twelve days after starting operations, they were beginning to lay new tracks.
Table of Contents of Condensed Annual Report
Pages 1 through 68. Printed on White Paper
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Balance Sheet 18
Civil Defense 9
Comparative Annual Expenditures - Four Years 21
General Information About Wilbraham 67
Net Cost Accounts Other Than Appropriations 24
Report of the Financial Committee 13
Selectmen's Report 4
Town Meeting - March 5, 1955 26
Town Meeting - March 12, 1955 42
Town Meeting - June 7, 1955 44
Town Meeting - October 17, 1955 49
Warrant for March 10, 1956 55
APPENDIX
For appendix containing 1955 reports and expenditures of all departments (publication of which is required by vote of Town Meeting) see Pages 1A to 64A inclusive Printed on India-colored paper
Table of Contents for Appendix
appears on page 2A
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Selectmen's Report
Nineteen hundred and fifty-five was so filled with activity, problems and decisions for your Board of Selectmen that this report would become too long if more than major con- siderations were to be covered.
The year started with an Annual Town Meeting which together with the subsequent special town meetings was asked to provide the highest appropriations in the Town's history in the startling amount of $917,951.72. Even though an important percentage of some of the appropriations in- cluded in the above total will be, or have been, returned to the Town by Federal, State and County governments, school and water main needs forced the Town to increase its total indebtedness from $688,500.00 to $908,000.00 and to addi- tionally use $252,228.83 from prior savings (funds in the treasury) to provide for these appropriations without a very extreme jump in the tax rate.
That Town Meeting's AGENDA WAS SO LENGTHY THAT FOR THE FIRST TIME IN MANY YEARS the meeting recessed to a subsequent Saturday. Other than appropriation, highlights of that meeting were the rejec- tion of a firearms and private property hunting control by- law, and the deeding of land to provide access for off-street parking at St. Cecelia's Church. The meeting adopted a plan for a nighttime police patrol, rejected a plan for off- street parking facilities, and the extension of Springfield Street through Crane Park and northerly to South Moun- tain Road. Alternative plans for the use of Crane Park itself for off-street parking were presented. No action was taken.
By far, the major event of the Town's year was the devastating flood of late August to which several of the pictures in this Annual Report are devoted.
Highway traffic was blocked by washouts on some point in every through highway in the Town with the exception of Springfield Street and North Stony Hill Road. At the time the Selectmen estimated the long term permanent res- toration of damaged facilities might equal about $200,000.00 and, for the first time in the history of the Town, under the provisions of Section 31, Chapter 44 of the General Laws declared a public emergency and appropriated $25,950.00 for the temporary restoration of services without a Town Meeting. This entire amount has been expended. Of this expenditure $14,892.21 has since been recovered in alloca- tions by the Federal Government and $10,377.46 is being sought additionally from the Commonwealth. Of this amount $6,994.66 has been spent for permanent repairs.
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A contract for a new bridge to replace the one washed out on Crane Hill Road has been let in the amount of $37,199.00 to be paid for with State funds.
There were 19 important washouts and scores of other extensive erosions of shoulders and highways which did not block the passage of vehicular traffic.
Your Board was fortunate to secure the almost immediate complimentary assistance of the Massachusetts Toll Road Authority personnel and their private contractors for work in and from the then isolated East Wilbraham section, and to further secure the equally immediate dawn to midnight services and equipment of Edward Lindsay, local excavating and grading contractor, and of Alton E. Gleason, local prop- erty owner, who is a road surfacing contractor.
These services and facilities added to the equipment of Walter Clark of Stony Hill Road, and of our Town Highway Department permitted the individual Selectmen and Her- bert Butler, Highway Superintendent to divide up projects and to proceed with simultaneous emergency repairs in all parts of the town. With East Wilbraham and the moun- tain area entirely cut off the immediate efforts to restore vehicular travel on Glendale Road, Crane Hill Road, and Red Bridge Road became strategically important to pro- vide accessibility to all parts of the Town. Working under forced draft, temporary facilities for vehicular travel were restored to the mountain area by midnight on Friday of the storm, to most of East Wilbraham by Saturday eve- ning, and to all sections of the Town (with some detours) by Sunday afternoon.
Fortunately the new bridge over the canal on Red Bridge Road, a project sought for many years by your present and prior Boards of Selectmen, had been completed just prior to the storm and it was this fact alone that permitted the movement of heavy equipment needed in that section of the Town.
The 1500 foot ravine in the vicinity of the Kittridge home which, prior to the storm had been North Mountain Road, was a part of a current Chapter 90 layout. The major re- pairs here were postponed to determine whether state aid would be fully available or whether the Town would best use the state and county subsidized Chapter 90 project to do this job. Fortunately, your Selectmen were able to secure free fill and free loading of trucks from the Toll Road con- tractors. This major job of road grade restoration was carried out with a fleet of massive ten wheeler dump trucks, which became available only after extreme pressure, cajol- ery, and most every other form of urgent appeal. Two of
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these trucks were kidnapped out of a repair shop, being hastily reassembled for our job. By this means the ravine was refilled and restored temporarily and the brook put back in its normal bed within the limits of two and one-half days from the start of this project. The Selectmen further assumed that the Town would approve its permitting these trucks to finish out their final day by dumping this free fill in the dangerous ravine across Mr. Kittridge's yard.
Your Board takes this opportunity to express appreciation for the outstanding cooperation during and following the flood emergency to Benjamin Grout, former Supt. of Streets and Engineering in Springfield, former Associate Commis- sioner of the Dept. of Public Works and now a member of the Toll Road Authority, and to John Volpe, Commissioner of the Mass. Dept. of Public Works and his associates in that department. Your Board also compliments Herbert Butler, Highway Superintendent, Robert Dietz, Sergeant of the Wilbraham Police Patrol, Raymond Beach, Jr., former Di- rector of Civilian Defense, Dr. John Sigsbee, Assistant Director, Ralph Tupper, Fire Chief, and all Town volunteers and employees for their round-the-clock assistance during the emergency.
The Board of Selectmen are particularly cognizant of the future perils to all hilly and many other communities from brookbed and water run-off valleys having been completely, or nearly completely, filled with washed-in materials during the August flood. Under present laws your Town Govern- ment cannot do anything to remedy this serious threat to public safety where it exists on private property, without a difficult form of complete approval from every owner. To seek urgently needed provision for action on this score, your Selectmen are supporting House Bill #H-926 and urge all readers of this report to do the same.
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