As used in this chapter, the following terms
shall have the meanings indicated:
BOARD
Means the Zoning Board of Appeals established under MGL c.
40A, § 12.
LOCAL BOARD
Means any local board or official, including but not limited
to any Board of Survey; Board of Health; Planning Board; Conservation
Commission; Historical Commission; Water, Sewer, or other commission;
Fire, Police, traffic, or other department; Building Inspector or
similar official or board; Board of Selectmen.
As a condition of the comprehensive permit,
the applicant shall post a bond, or other form of surety, as a safeguard
for performance, and/or a penal sum in a form and amount acceptable
to the Board, prior to the expiration of the twenty-day appeal period,
unless the Board shall specify otherwise. If the applicant is not
the owner and must purchase the property in question in order to assume
such obligations, or if another form of ownership or control is in
force, such person or entity shall comply with the provisions of this
section within 20 days following the date of such purchase or control.
If said performance guarantee shall lapse before completion and certification
of final inspection by the Board, a new guarantee shall be filed expeditiously
by the applicant/controller of the land and/or project. Sum of bond
shall be determined by the engineer or engineers as set forth by the
Board to be the total of cost of roadways, sewer or septic system,
water system or wells, parking areas, landscaping and such estimated
by the Board's engineer.
The provisions of these rules and regulations
are severable. If any provision of these rules and regulations is
held invalid, the other provisions shall not be affected thereby.
If the application of these rules and regulations or any of their
provisions to any person or circumstances is held invalid, the application
of these rules and regulations and their provisions to other persons
and circumstances shall not be affected thereby.