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constructed, opened, enlarged or straightened in any street, lane or alley,
or through any private property, and to enact and pass all ordinances from
time to time which shall be deemed necessary and proper to exercise the
power and effect the objects herein specified. The amount of benefit
assessed on any property for constructing, opening, enlarging or straighten-
ing any sewer in any street, lane or alleys, or through any private property,
constructed, opened, enlarged or straightened by virtue of any ordinance
passed by the Mayor and Council of Easton, shall be a lien on the prop-
erty and recoverable as town taxes are. No private sewer or drain shall be
constructed, altered, or repaired without a permit from the Mayor. Before
the Mayor and Council of Easton shall pass any ordinance under this arti-
cle relating to the construction, opening, enlarging or straightening of any
sewer through any street, lane or alley, or through any private property,
notice shall be given of an application for the passage of such an ordi-
nance in one or more newspapers of said town once a week for three
weeks. Before any commissioners appointed by any ordinance of said
corporation under the preceding sections hereof shall proceed to the per-
formance of their duty, they shall give notice in one or more newspapers
published in the town of Easton, of the object of the ordinance under which
they purpose to act, at least thirty days before the time of the first
meeting to execute the same.

1906, ch. 458, sec. 70A. 1927, ch. 18. 1929, ch. 111.

165. The Mayor and City Council have the power to regulate and
prescribe by ordinance, as a protection against fire, whether houses to be
built or erected in said town shall be built of wood or other materials,
and to prescribe in what parts and sections thereof buildings of wood may
be erected and in what parts or sections of the same buildings of wood shall
not be erected, and to prescribe penalties for violating said ordinance by
erecting buildings of wood or parts or sections thereof where the same are
not allowed under said ordinance; to require by ordinance that every per-
son who wishes or purposes to erect or add to any building or buildings
in said town to make a written application to the Mayor and Council
for a permit to erect the same before beginning work thereon, and in such
application to set forth the location, character, materials, purposes and
uses of said building, and to obtain, before beginning work on the same,
a permit, printed or written, signed by the town clerk, on the order of the
Mayor and Council, and entered at length in the minute book, and by
ordinance to prescribe the charge for the issuing of the permit and penal-
ties for erecting or beginning to erect or add to any buildings without
such permit; to provide by ordinance for taking down and removing any
building of wood erected in any part or section of the town in violation of
an ordinance wherein the erection of buildings of wood are forbidden, and
for taking down and removing any buildings erected without a permit
first had and obtained from the Mayor and Council; to provide by ordi-
nance for establishing a building line for the erection on the streets, lanes
and thoroughfares of said town or by order in the case of particular build-