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CHAPTER 19, SECTION 37, REVISED LAWS. ACCEPTED AT A TOWN MEETING MARCH 27, 1911. SecTioN 37. In a town which by a vote of a majority of the voters voting thereon at an annual or special town meeting accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the provisions of this chapter and the rules made under the authority thereof which relate to the police and fire forces of cities except Boston shall apply to all members of the regular or permanent police and fire forces,or to thecail fire force, or to either of said forces, of a town. Such vote may limit the application of the provisions of this chapter and of the rules made thereunder either to the police force or to the fire force of such town, or it may extend such applicati•rn to both of said forces. Upon such vote of acceptance, each member of the force or forces included therein and within the classified civil service shall continue to hold his office until his death, resignation or removal. He shall not be removed except for cause shown after a full hearing before the board or officer of the town having power to make removals, and such member shall have the right to be present at such hearing and to be represented by counsel. (By vote of the town the provisions of the preceeding section are to apply to the "regular or permanent members of the police force of the town.) REVISED LAWS, CHAPTER 104, SCCTtoNs 1 TO 10 BOTH INCLUSIVE. ACCEPTED AT A TOWN MEETING MARCH 27, 1911. SEcrroN 1. Every city, except Boston, and every town which accepts the provisions of this section or has accepted the corres- ponding provisions of earlier laws may, for the prevention of fire and the preservation of life, by ordinances or by-laws not inconsis- tent with law and applicable throughout the whole or any defined part of its territory, regulate the inspection, materials, construction, 99 alteration and use of buildings and other structures within its limits, except such as are owned or occupied by the United States or by the Commonwealth, and except bridges, quays and wharves, and may prescribe penalities not exceeding one hundred dollars for each violation of such ordinances or by-laws. SEC. 2. In a town which accepts the provisions of this and the following section or has accepted the provisions of earlier laws, no dwelling house or other structure more than eight feet in length or breadth and seven feet in heigth, except detached houses or struc- tures situated more than one hundred feet from any other building and wooden structures erected on wooden wharves, shall be built within such limits as the town may from time to time prescribe, un- less made of and covered with an incombustable material or unless a license in writing is granted therefor by the selectmen for public good or necessity and recorded in the town records. SEc. 3. A building or structure which is erected in violation of the provisions of the preceeding section shall be deemed a common nuisance without other proof thereof than proof of its unlawful con- struction and use; and the selectmen may abate and remove it in the same manner as boards of health may remove nuisances under the provisions of sections sixty-seven, sixty-eight and sixty-nine of chapter seventy-five. SEC. 4. In a city or town which accepts the provisions of this and the eight following sections or has accepted the corresponding provisions of earlier laws, the superintendent of public buildings or such other officer as the mayor and aldermen of said city or the selectmen of said town may designate shall be inspector of build- ings, and, immediately upon being informed by report or otherwise that a building or other structure or anything attached to or con- nected therewith in said city or town is unsafe or dangerous to life or limb, shall inspect the same ; and if it appears to him to be dangerous, he shall forthwith in writing notify the owner, agent or any person having an interest therein to remove it or make it safe and secure. 100