Registration Required

Sect. 7. Every person, firm or corporation hereafter using or occupying a building in the city of Boston as a hospital shall forthwith register with the building department in the manner required by chapter thirty-two of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and nineteeu, setting forth all the facts and data therein specified.

Sect. 8. Violation of this act shall be punished by a fine not exceeding five hundred dollars.

[Approved April 30, 1919.]

Chapter 455, Acts Of 1920. An Act Relative to the Limitation in Height of Buildings on Land Between Dartmouth Street and Trinity Place in the City of Boston

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The limitation of the height of buildings contained in chapter four hundred and fifty-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-eight shall not apply to a parcel of land now owned by the trustees of the Copley Square Trust, containing about twenty-one thousand, two hundred and forty square feet, and bounded southerly on Stuart street two hundred and thirty-six feet, westerly on Dartmouth street ninety feet, northerly on other land of said trustees on which now stands the Copley Plaza Hotel two hundred and thirty-six feet, and easterly on Trinity place ninety feet. If, within two years from the passage of this act, said parcel of land or any part or parts thereof are taken by public authority for any public use, the owner or owners of the land so taken shall, with respect to the land taken and apart from improvements thereon, only be entitled to recover damages to the extent that they would have been entitled to recover if this act had not been passed.

Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage.

[Approved May 14, 1920.]

Chapter 645, Acts of 1920. An Act Relative to Automatic Sprinklers in Tenement Houses in the City of Boston

Be it enacted, etc, as follows:

Section 1. The provisions of the fourth, fifth and sixth paragraphs of section forty-five of chapter five hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and seven, as amended by section ten of chapter seven hundred a'nd eighty-two of the acts of nineteen hundred and fourteen, and by section four of chapter three hundred and fifty-two of the Special Acts of nineteen hundred and fifteen, and by section one of chapter four hundred and forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty, are hereby suspended and rendered inoperative as to tenement houses now existing until the first day of March in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-one.

Sect. 2. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by the mayor of the city of Boston; but for the purposes of such acceptance it shall take effect upon its passage.

[Approved December 22, 1920.]

Chapter 109, Acts of 1921. An Act Exempting Certain Buildings in the City of Boston from the Laws Relative to Fire Protection in Stables for Horses and Mules

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

The existing buildings upon premises numbered forty-nine on North Margin street, in Boston, shall be exempt from the provisions of section eighty-six of chapter two hundred and seventy-two of the General Laws; provided that such buildings continue to be equipped with a line of fire hose on each floor above the first, to be used for fire purposes only, sufficient to reach all parts of said floor and connected with a fire supply pipe on each such floor, and provided that at least one man shall be on duty at such buildings at all times during the day and night.

[Approved March 12, 1921.]

Chapter 137, Acts of 1921. An Act to Establish Harbor Lines in South Bay in the City of Boston

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Harbor Lines. Section 1. The harbor lines in South bay in the city of Boston are hereby changed and established as follows:

Beginning at a point A on the southerly side of Dover street bridge, which point is distant one hundred and eighty-three feet southeasterly from the southeasterly side line of Albany street; thence running southwesterly, parallel with said side line, nine hundred feet, to point B; thence running southwesterly, a little more westerly, about five hundred and fifty-five feet to a point C which is distant three hundred and seventy feet southeasterly from the northwesterly side line of Albany street, measuring at right angles to said side line from a point therein six hundred and twenty-seven feet northeasterly from the northeasterly side line of Wareham street; thence running southwesterly still more westerly, about sixteen hundred and fifteen feet, to a point D which is distant three hundred and fifty-three feet southeasterly from said northwesterly side line of Albany street, measuring at right angles to said side line from the point of its intersection with the southwesterly side line of East Brookline street; thence running southwesterly, still more westerly, five hundred feet, to a point E which is distant three hundred and forty feet south-easterly from said northwesterly side line of Albany street, measuring at right angles thereto; thence running south-easterly one hundred feet at right angles to the harbor line last described to a point F; thence running north-easterly, about four hundred and thirty-five feet, to a point G which is distant four hundred and fifty-five feet southeasterly from said northwesterly side line of Albany street, measuring at right angles to said side line from a point therein sixty-five feet southwesterly from the southwesterly side line of East Brookline street; thence running southeasterly, parallel with the northerly side line of Southampton street, six hundred and eighty feet to a point H; thence deflecting to the left one hundred degrees, six minutes and running northwesterly about seven hundred and five feet to a point J which is distant two hundred and ten feet southeasterly from the line C-D, measuring at right angles thereto; thence running northeasterly parallel to said line C-D, eight hundred and twenty-nine feet to a point K; thence running northeasterly more northerly parallel to and two hundred and ten feet distant southeasterly from the line B-C about one thousand and ten feet to point L which is situated at the intersection of said line K-L, and a line perpendicular to the southerly side line of Dover street bridge and forty feet northwesterly from the center of pier number four of said Dover street bridge, said line also being about eighty-five feet southeasterly from the southeasterly side of the draw opening in said bridge; thence northeasterly more northerly in said line forty feet northwesterly of said pier number four about nine hundred and twenty-seven feet to its intersection with the harbor line on the easterly side of Fort Point channel and northerly of Dover street bridge established by chapter thirty-five of the acts of eighteen hundred and forty.