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ARTICLE 14
PLANNING REGULATIONS
SECTION 1. The town adopts a by-law establishing a Planning Board under the provisions of General Laws (Ter.Ed.) Chapter 41, Section 81 A-J inclusive, (Acts of 1937, Chapter 211) with all the powers and duties therein and in any existing by-laws of the town provided, to consist of five (5) members to be elected at the annual town meeting in March 1935, one for a term of one year, two for a term of two years, two for a term of three years, and thereafter in accordance with the provisions of the statute. (Note: Subsequent revision of Chapter 41 G.L. Section 81-A provides that "members of the planning board under this section shall be elected or appointed for terms of such lengths and so arranged that the term of at least one member will expire each year and their successors shall be elected or
appointed for terms of five years each.")
SECTION 2. The duties of such Board shall be such as are stated in Chapter 41, Sections 70-72 of the General Laws, and further to consider and advise upon municipal improvements either at the request of other officials of the town or upon its own initiative. It shall consider and develop a town plan, with special attention to main ways, land developments, zoning, playgrounds, parks and sites for permanent school plants. The Board shall meet at regular intervals. It may hold public meetings. It shall at all reasonable times have access to public documents or information in the possession of any town official or department. It shall examine the plans for the exterior of any public building, monument or similar feature, and for the development and treatment of the grounds about the
same before the adoption thereof, and may make such recommendation thereon as it may deem needful. It may provide for public lectures and other educational work in connection with its recommend-ations. It may incur expenses necessary to the carrying on of its work within the amount of its annual appropriations.
SECTION 3. All plans of land for the site of any public building, and all plans for the location, erection or alteration of public buildings, shall be submitted to said board for its opinion at least two weeks in advance of action by the Board of Selectmen.
SECTION 4. The Board of Water Commissioners may from time to time, on such conditions as may be determined by the board, receive from prospective developers of lands in the town, respectively, sums of money sufficient, in the opinion of the board, to cover the estimated expense to the town, as certified by the Planning Board or such part thereof as is to be incurred by the town, of constructing water mains with all appurtenances necessary or proper in private ways approved by the Planning Board under the provisions of General Laws (Ter.Ed.) Chapter 41, as amended by S.T. 1936, Chapter 211 or as otherwise amended, such sums to be paid to the town treasurer to the credit of the town, each sum to be held as a special fund marked with the name of the depositor and the way or ways to which the same is applicable,
and subject to retention and appropriation by the town for the purpose of reimbursing the town for moneys expended in constructing water mains and appurtenances in the respective ways designated for the respective funds and for the return to the depositor of any unexpended balances as certified by the Board of Water Commissioners after completion of such water mains and appurtenances. If such deposit of estimated expense in any case is not sufficient for the work, the developer shall make deposit of a sufficient additional amount. This by-law shall be additional to and not in limitation of the powers otherwise vested in said Board of Water Commissioners.
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