No Wharf or Structure to be Built or Extended Beyond Harbor Lines

Sect. 2. No wharf, pier, wall, filling or other structure of work, shall hereafter be built or extended in said South bay beyond the harbor lines aforesaid; nor shall any structure be built or filling done inside said harbor lines and below the present high water mark in said bay, without authority or license therefor first duly obtained under and subject to the provisions of chapter ninety-one of the General Laws.

No Work Allowed Below High Water Mark

Sect. 3. No structure shall be built or filling or other work done in any portion of said South bay below the present high water mark thereof, whereby the existing flow or drainage of surface or other waters in or into and through said bay towards the sea is cut off or obstructed, without first making such other provision for such flow or drainage as shall be approved by the department of public works of both the commonwealth and the city of Boston. Sect. 4. All harbor lines heretofore established in South bay, so far as they differ from those established by this act, are hereby annulled.

[Approved March 23, 1921.]

Chapter 298, Acts of 1921. An Act Relative to the Operation of Elevators by Minors

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. No minor under sixteen years of age shall be employed or permitted to operate, clean or repair a freight elevator.

Sect. 2. Violations of the provisions of this act shall be punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars.

[Approved April 9, 1921.]

Definition

Statutes. Meaning of Certain Words in Construing Same.

[General Laws, Chapter 4, Section 7.]

Thirty-fourth, "Town," when applied to towns or officers or employees thereof, shall include city.

[G. 9. 3, Sect. 7, cl. 17; 140 Mass. 381: 187 Mass. 150; P. S. 3, Sect. 3, cl. 23; 148 Mass. 148; 191 Mass. 78; R. L. 8, Sect. 5, cl. 23; 153 Mass. 40; R. S. 2, Sect. 6, cl. 17.]

Spite Fences

Fence a Nuisance

[General Laws, Chapter 49, Section 21.]

Section 21. A fence or other structure in the nature of a fence which unnecessarily exceeds six feet in height and is maliciously erected or maintained for the purpose of annoying the owners or occupants of adjoining property shall be deemed a private nuisance. Any such owner or occupant injured in the comfort or enjoyment of his estate thereby may have an action of tort for damages under chapter two hundred and forty-three.

[1837, c. 348; R. L. 33, Sect. 19; 148 Mass. 368, 407; 150 Mass. 482; 162 Mass. 543.]