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

January 28, 1873.

Chapter 129, Acts of 1889. An Act Relating to Buildings in the Public Parks of the City of Boston

Be it enacted, etc., as follows:

Section 1. The park commissioners of the city of Boston may erect in the parks of said city that now are or hereafter may be under their control, except the common, public garden and public squares, structures for the shelter and refreshment of persons frequenting such parks, and for other park purposes, of such materials and in such places as in the opinion of the fire commissioners of said city do not endanger buildings beyond the limits of the park. Section sixteen of chapter fifty-four of the Public Statutes and chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the acts of the year eighteen hundred and eighty-five shall not apply to such buildings.

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

.Approved March 18, 1889.

Chapter 462, Acts of 1893. An Act to Authorize the Establishment of a Building Line on Public Ways

Restrictions as to Building

Section 1. The board or officers having authority to lay out city or town ways may in the manner prescribed by law for giving notice of an intention to lay out any such way, give notice of an intention to establish a building line parallel to, and not more than twenty-five feet distant from, any exterior line of a highway or city or town way, and after said notice may pass a vote establishing such building line, and in the case of a city, upon the recording of said vote in the records of the city, or in a town, upon the acceptance of said vote by the inhabitants of the town at a town meeting called as provided for by law, said building line shall be established; and until another building line shall thereafter be established in the same manner, no structure shall thereafter be erected, placed or maintained between such building line and such way, except that steps, windows, porticos and other usual projections appurtenant to the front wall of a building, may be allowed in such restricted space to the extent prescribed in the vote establishing such building line.

Damages

Sect. 2. Any person sustaining damage by reason of the establishment of such building line shall have the same remedies for obtaining payment therefor as may be prescribed by law for obtaining payment for damages sustained by the laying out of a highway in such city or town.

Sect. 3. This act shall take effect in any city when accepted by the city council thereof, and in any town when accepted by a majority of the legal voters thereof present and voting thereon at a town meeting called for that purpose.                                      [Approved June 9, 1893.]

Building Lines Established

1.    Beacon street, River street to Beaver street January 5,1895.

2.    Beacon street (both sides), Arlington street to Massachusetts avenue, January 5, 1895.

3.    Beacon street (northerly side), between Somerset street and Bowdoin street, November 6, 1900.

4.    Boylston street, Back Bay Fens to Brookline, avenue, October 4, 1894.

5.   Beech street, West Roxbury (northeast side), between Centre street and railroad, February 29, 1916.

6.    Columbia road, Edward Everett square to the railroad. Established by park commissioners.

7.    Columbia road (southeast side), Hamilton street to Richfield street, January 28, 1915.

8.    Grove street, West Roxbury (both sides), between Washington street and Centre street, March 9, 1916.

9.    Jersey street, July 15, 1898; Landsdowne street, November 7, 1906.

10.    Peterborough street, February 1, 1901.

11.    Queensberry street, July 15, 1897.

[See General Laws, chapter 82, section 37, which seems to supersede the above act.]

Parkways

There is a twenty-five foot building line on the following locations (established by the Park Commissioners):

Riverway, from Longwood avenue to Huntington avenue.

Jamaicaway, from Huntington avenue to Prince street.

Arborway, from Prince street to Forest Hills street, with the exception of two lots on Weld park.

Northwesterly boundary of Olmsted park, from Chestnut street to line of land of Henrietta S. Sargent.

West Roxbury Parkway on southerly boundary, from Walter street to Weld street; on westerly and a part of northerly boundary. See Suffolk Registry, Lib. 2384, Fol. 153 and Lib. 2730, Fol. 359.

Chapter 219, Acts of 1897. An Act to Provide for the Protection of the Public Health in the City of Boston

Buildings may be Vacated or Torn Down

Section 1. Whenever the board of health of the city of Boston shall be of the opinion that any building or any part thereof in said city is infected with contagious disease, or by reason of want of repair has become dangerous to life, or is unfit for use because of defects in drainage, plumbing, ventilation or in the construction of the same, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises which is likely to cause sickness among its occupants, said board may issue an order requiring all persons therein to vacate or cease to use such building or part thereof stated in the order, for reasons to be stated therein as aforesaid. Said board shall cause said order to be affixed conspicuously to the building or part thereof; and to be personally served on the owner, lessee, agent, occupant or any person having the charge or care thereof, if the owner, lessee or agent cannot be found in the said city, or does not reside therein, or evades or resists service, then said order may be served by depositing a copy thereof in the postoffice of said city postpaid and properly inclosed and addressed to such owner, lessee or agent at his last known place of business or residence. Such building or part thereof shall be vacated within ten days after said order shall have been posted and mailed as aforesaid, or within such shorter time, not less than forty-eight hours, as in said order may be specified, and said building shall be no longer used; but whenever said board shall become satisfied that the danger from said building or part thereof has ceased to exist, or that said building has been repaired so as to be habitable, it may revoke said order. Whenever in the opinion of the board of health any building or part thereof in said city is because of age, infected with contagious disease, defects in drainage, plumbing or ventilation, or because of the existence of a nuisance on the premises which is likely to cause sickness among its occupants, or among the occupants of other property in said city, or because it makes other buildings in said vicinity unfit for human habitation or dangerous or injurious to health, or because it prevents proper measures from being carried into effect for remedying any nuisance injurious to health, or other sanitary evils in respect of such other buildings, so unfit for human habitation that the evils in or caused by said building cannot be remedied by repairs or in any other way except by the destruction of said building or of any portion of the same, said board of health may order the same or any part thereof to be removed; and if said building is not removed in accordance with said order said board of health shall remove the same at the expense of the city.