tor of accounts, January twentieth, shall send a copy thereof, by him attested Copy to direcand signed by the chairman, to the said director, who shall etc. analyze and classify said estimates, and report the same to Report to the general court not later than February tenth. The general court. Copies of report director shall upon their request send a copy of said report to be sent to to the mayor of each city and to the selectmen of each town selectmen, etc. in the commonwealth. Approved February 25, 1926. mayors and AN ACT RELATIVE TO THE REPEAL OR MODIFICATION OF CITY Chap. 59 ORDINANCES REGULATING THE CONSTRUCTION AND USE OF BUILDINGS. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: modification of ing particular districts or zones in cities ings to specified and towns. Chapter forty of the General Laws, as amended in section G. L. 40, § 30, thirty by chapter forty of the acts of nineteen hundred and etc., amended. twenty-two, is hereby further amended by striking out said section and inserting in place thereof the following: Section 30. No ordinance or by-law enacted under section Repeal or twenty-five shall be repealed or modified except after reason- ordinances or able notice of the proposed repeal or modification and an by-laws limitopportunity to the objectors to be heard thereon. In a classes of buildcity, such a hearing shall be before the city council or any committee designated or appointed for the purpose by the city council. If in a city any owner of real estate which would be affected by the proposed repeal or modification objects thereto by writing filed with the city clerk, the ordinance shall not be repealed or modified except by a unanimous vote of all the members of a city council of less than ten members or by a three fourths vote of all the members of a city council of ten or more members; and in no case shall such an ordinance or by-law be repealed or modified except by a two thirds vote of all the members of the city council, or by a two thirds vote of a town meeting. Approved February 25, 1926. AN ACT TO REVIVE THE CHARTER OF THE FITCHBURG MUTUAL CASUALTY INSURANCE COMPANY. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Chap. 60 Casualty Company, The Fitchburg Mutual Casualty Insurance Company, a Fitchburg corporation whose charter expired October sixth, nineteen Mutual hundred and twenty-five, by virtue of section forty-four of Insurance chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws, charter revived is hereby revived with the same powers, duties and obligations as if the period for commencing to issue policies, mentioned in said section, had not expired; provided, that its Proviso. corporate powers shall cease unless it commences to issue policies within one year after the effective date of this act. Approved February 25, 1926. Chap. 61 AN ACT RELATIVE TO The tenure of office of the clerk Clerk of committees of city of Woburn, election, tenure of office, etc. Oath, etc. Removal. Vacancies. Term of clerk elected in January, 1926. Submission Proviso. OF COMMITTEES OF THE CITY OF WOburn. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. The city council of the city of Woburn shall, in the month of January, elect, by a majority vote of all its members, for a term of three years, a clerk of committees who shall hold office from the first Monday of the following February and until his successor is chosen and qualified. Before assuming office, a person elected under this section shall take and subscribe before the mayor or city clerk, or a justice of the peace, an oath or affirmation faithfully to perform his duties, which oath or affirmation, or a certified copy thereof, shall be filed in the office of the city clerk. The said clerk of committees may be removed for cause at any time by a two thirds vote of all the members of the city council. Any vacancy in said office shall be filled by election by the city council for the balance of the unexpired term. SECTION 2. The clerk of committees elected by the city council in January, nineteen hundred and twenty-six shall serve for three years in accordance with the provisions of this act. SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon its acceptance by vote of the city council of said city, subject to the provisions of its charter; provided, that such acceptance occurs during the current year. Approved February 25, 1926. Chap. 62 AN ACT PROVIDING FOR BIENNIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN Biennial municipal elections in THE CITY OF WOBURN. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: SECTION 1. Beginning with the second Tuesday of December in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six, mucity of Woburn. nicipal elections in the city of Woburn for the choice of mayor, members of the city council and members of the school committee shall be held biennially, on the second Tuesday of December in every even-numbered year. Terms of mayor and city councillors. Inauguration meeting. School committee, election, terms, etc. SECTION 2. Beginning with the biennial municipal election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twentysix, the mayor and members of the city council of said city shall be elected for terms of two years and shall serve until their successors are qualified. The inauguration meeting of the city government shall be held on the first Monday of January following each biennial municipal election, or on the following day whenever said first Monday falls on a holiday. SECTION 3. At the biennial municipal election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six and at every biennial municipal election thereafter, except as otherwise provided in this section, all members of the school committee to be elected shall be elected to serve for four years each and until their successors are qualified. The members of said committee elected in nineteen hundred and twenty-four shall continue to hold office until the qualification of their successors who shall be elected at the biennial municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight. At the biennial municipal election to be held in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-eight, six members of the school committee shall be elected to fill the vacancies occurring in the following January, and of the members so to be elected two shall be elected for terms of two years and four for terms of four years each. consistent pro repealed. voters, etc. SECTION 4. Such provisions of chapter one hundred and Certain inseventy-two of the acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, visions and acts in amendment thereof and in addition thereto, as are inconsistent with this act are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This act shall be submitted to the voters of Submission to the city of Woburn at the state election in the current year in the form of the following question which shall be printed on the official ballot to be used at said election: "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled 'An Act providing for biennial municipal elections in the city of Woburn', be accepted?" If a majority of the voters voting thereon vote in the affirmative in answer to said question, this act shall thereupon take effect, but not otherwise. Approved February 25, 1926. AN ACT PROVIDING FOR BIENNIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN Chap. 63 THE CITY OF WALTHAM. Be it enacted, etc., as follows: municipal Waltham. and city coun SECTION 1. Municipal elections in the city of Waltham Biennial for the choice of mayor, members of the city council and elections in members of the school committee shall be held biennially city of commencing with the municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. There shall be no municipal election in said city in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six. SECTION 2. At the biennial municipal election to be held Terms of mayor in said city in nineteen hundred and twenty-seven and at cillors. every biennial municipal election thereafter, the mayor and members of the city council shall be elected to serve for two years from the first Monday in January following their election and until their successors are qualified. The mayor, and the members of the said city council elected in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-four, shall continue to hold office until the qualification of their successors who shall be elected at the biennial municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-seven. The inauguration meeting Inauguration of the city government shall be held on the first Monday of meeting. January following each biennial municipal election, or on the following day whenever said first Monday falls on a holiday. School com mittee, election, terms, etc. Day for holding municipal elections. Submission to voters, etc. SECTION 3. The members of the school committee of said city elected in the year nineteen hundred and twentythree shall continue to hold office until the qualification of their successors who shall be elected at the biennial municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twentyseven. The members of said school committee elected in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-five shall continue to hold office until the qualification of their successors who shall be elected at the biennial municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-nine. At the biennial municipal election in the year nineteen hundred and twentyseven there shall be elected four members of the school committee, one to serve for two years and three to serve for four years, from the first Monday in January following their election and until their successors are qualified; and thereafter at every biennial municipal election three members of the school committee shall be elected to serve for four years from the first Monday in January following their election and until their successors are qualified. SECTION 4. The next regular municipal election in said city, succeeding the passage of this act, shall be held on Tuesday next after the first Monday in November, nineteen hundred and twenty-seven, and thereafter the regular municipal elections in said city shall be held biennially on the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November in each odd-numbered year. SECTION 5. This act shall be submitted to the voters of the city of Waltham at the state election in the current year in the form of the following question which shall be printed on the official ballot to be used at said election: — "Shall an act passed by the general court in the year nineteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled 'An Act providing for biennial municipal elections in the city of Waltham' be accepted?" If a majority of the voters voting thereon vote in the affirmative in answer to said question, then this act shall take full effect in said city, but not otherwise. Approved February 25, 1926. Chap. 64 AN ACT AUTHORIZING THE PLACING OF INSURANCE AGAINST G. L. 175, § 168, etc. amended. DAMAGE CAUSED BY EARTHQUAKE WITH UNAUTHORIZED Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section one hundred and sixty-eight of chapter one hundred and seventy-five of the General Laws, as amended by section thirteen of chapter four hundred and fifty of the acts of nineteen hundred and twenty-four, is hereby further amended by inserting after the word "bombardment" in the fifth and sixth lines the word: -, earthquake, to read as follows: Section 168. The commissioner may, ance brokers to upon the payment of the fee prescribed by section fourteen, issue to any suitable person of full age resident in the commonwealth, a license to act as a special insurance broker to Licensing of special insur negotiate, etc., certain insur ance in So as foreign insur expiration, etc. etc. davit to be filed procuring in negotiate, continue or renew contracts of fire, bombardment, unauthorized earthquake, steam boiler or flywheel insurance on property ance companies. in this commonwealth in foreign companies not authorized to transact such business therein, upon the following conditions: The applicant for the license shall file with the com- Applications. missioner a written application as prescribed by section one hundred and sixty-six, which shall be executed on oath by the applicant and kept on file by the commissioner. If License, issue, the commissioner is satisfied that the applicant is trustworthy and competent, he shall issue the license, subject to suspension or revocation at the pleasure of the commissioner, which shall expire in one year from its date, unless sooner suspended or revoked as aforesaid. The license may, in Renewal, fee, the discretion of the commissioner, be renewed for each succeeding year, upon the payment of the fee prescribed by section fourteen, without requiring anew the detailed information specified by section one hundred and sixty-six. Be- Certain affifore the person named in such license shall procure any with commisinsurance in such companies on any such property, he shall sioner before in every case execute, and within five days thereafter file surance, etc. with the commissioner, an affidavit, which shall have force and effect for one year only from the date of said affidavit, that he is unable to procure, in companies admitted to do business in the commonwealth, the amount of insurance necessary to protect said property, and shall procure insurance under such license only after he has procured insurance in companies admitted to do business as aforesaid to the full amount which said companies are willing to write on said property; but such licensed person shall not be required to file such affidavit if one relative to the same property has been filed within the preceding twelve months by any broker licensed under this section, nor to offer any portion of such insurance to any company not possessed of net cash assets of at least twenty-five thousand dollars, nor to one which has within the preceding twelve months been in an impaired condition. Each person so licensed shall keep a separate account of the business done under the license, a certified copy of which account he shall forthwith file with business done, the commissioner, showing the exact amount of such insurance placed for any person, the gross premium charged thereon, the companies in which the same is placed, the date of the policies and the term thereof, and also a report in the same detail of all such policies cancelled, with the gross return premiums thereon, and before receiving such license shall execute and deliver to the state treasurer a bond in the penal sum of two thousand dollars, with such Bond. sureties as he shall approve, conditioned that the licensee will faithfully comply with all the requirements of this section, and will annually, in January, file with the state Annual statetreasurer a sworn statement of the gross premiums charged treasurer. for insurance procured or placed and the gross return premiums on such insurance cancelled under such license during the year ending on December thirty-first last pre Licensees to keep and file account of etc. ment to state |