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Town of Dedham, MA
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2023-11-08
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Magazines
204-2{5} — SOLICITING
280-6.1C{1} — ADULT BOOKSTORE
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Manholes
§ 280-9.5 — Site plan review.
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Manufactured homes
§ 280-8.1 — Flood Plain Overlay District.
280-8.1B(3){12} — START OF CONSTRUCTION
280-8.1B(3){13} — STRUCTURE
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Manufacturing districts
§ 237-20 — Illumination.
§ 280-4.3 — Special setback and yard exceptions.
§ 280-4.7 — Separate lots for dwellings.
§ 280-5.2 — Landscaping.
§ 280-5.4 — Screening of uses.
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Manure
§ 280-8.1 — Flood Plain Overlay District.
§ 280-8.2 — Aquifer Protection Overlay District.
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Markers
§ 237-16 — Exempt Signs.
§ 237-19 — Design standards.
§ 237-21 — Location.
237-35{12} — HISTORICAL MARKER SIGN
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Master Plan
Ch 65 — Master Plan
§ 65-1 — Planning Board to prepare Master Plan.
§ 65-2 — Five-year review, revision and update.
§ 65-3 — Ten-year comprehensive review.
§ 65-4 — Comparison with other plans and by-laws; proposal of revisions.
§ 237-1 — Purpose.
§ 280-7.6 — Senior campus district.
§ 280-9.4 — Special permit for major nonresidential project.
§ DT-1 — Derivation Table of 1996 By-laws to 2014 Code
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Meetings
§ C-1-3 — Form of Government
§ C-1-7 — Definitions
Ch C Art 2 — REPRESENTATIVE TOWN MEETING
§ C-2-1 — Composition, Annual and Special Meetings
§ C-2-2 — Eligibility; Nomination Procedures
§ C-2-5 — Presiding Officer
§ C-2-6 — General Powers and Duties
§ C-2-7 — Vacancies; Filling of Vacancies
§ C-2-8 — Clerk of the Town Meeting
§ C-2-9 — Procedures
§ C-2-10 — By-Laws
§ C-2-11 — Availability of Town Officials at Town Meetings
§ C-2-12 — Referendum Petitions
§ C-3-2 — Select Board
§ C-3-3 — School Committee
§ C-3-4 — Board of Assessors
§ C-3-5 — Town Clerk
§ C-3-6 — Board of Health
§ C-3-7 — Board of Library Trustees
§ C-3-8 — Moderator
§ C-3-9 — Planning Board
§ C-3-10 — Parks and Recreation Commission
§ C-3-11 — Commissioners of Trust Funds
§ C-3-12 — Housing Authority
§ C-3-13 — Recall of Elected Officials
§ C-4-1 — Appointment; Qualification; Term
§ C-4-2 — Powers and Duties
§ C-5-1 — Department of Finance
§ C-5-2 — Organization of Town Agencies
§ C-5A-2 — School Committee Budget
§ C-5A-3 — Submission of Budget and Budget Message
§ C-5A-6 — Action on the Budget
§ C-6-2 — Procedures
§ C-6-3 — Appointed Multiple-Member Bodies
§ C-6-8 — Report of Multiple Member Bodies
Ch 1 — General Provisions
§ 1-1 — Citation; time of taking effect.
§ 1-5 — Amendment or repeal of by-laws; authority for Town Clerk to assign appropriate number.
§ 1-6 — Enforcement; general fines set; non-criminal disposition.
Ch 5 — Manager
§ 5-6 — Town Manager may submit articles for Town meeting.
Ch 12 — Boards, Commissions and Committees
§ 12-4 — Duties of the Commission.
§ 12-6 — Administration.
§ 12-8 — Duties of Council on Aging Board.
§ 12-10 — Administration.
§ 12-15 — Committee to determine building needs and make recommendation.
§ 12-16 — Committee to supervise authorized work.
§ 12-17 — Scope of chapter defined.
§ 12-25 — Duties.
§ 12-35 — Committee membership.
§ 12-42 — Procedures.
§ 12-45 — Duties.
§ 12-51 — Meetings; quorum.
Ch 18 — Cemeteries
§ 18-4 — Proceeds from sale of lots and graves to be reserved for appropriation.
§ 18-8 — Cemetery Committee duties.
Ch 24 — Departments
Ch 30 — Emergency Services
§ 30-6 — Five-year test.
Ch 34 — Endicott Estate
§ 34-1 — Preamble.
§ 34-2 — Estate to be used by residents for recreation and education.
§ 34-5 — Terms of Commissioners set; Commission to organize.
§ 34-7 — Commission to make recommendations on uses of estate.
Ch 39 — Finances
§ 39-2 — Term of Finance and Warrant Committee members.
§ 39-4 — Finance and Warrant Committee vacancies.
§ 39-5 — Town meeting articles to be referred to Finance and Warrant Committee for hearing and report.
§ 39-9 — Capital budget process; procedures.
§ 39-10 — Departments to submit budgets to Director of Finance.
§ 39-12 — Budget submission dates.
§ 39-13 — Audit to be made annually.
§ 39-32 — Mitigation Funds Committee.
§ 39-38 — Policies established.
§ 39-40 — Expenditure limitation.
Ch 42 — Fingerprint-Based Criminal Record Background Checks
Ch 57 — Legal Affairs
§ 57-4 — Select Board to appoint Town Counsel.
Ch 61 — Library
§ 61-2 — (Reserved)
§ 61-3 — Trustees to organize and appoint Library Director.
Ch 65 — Master Plan
§ 65-4 — Comparison with other plans and by-laws; proposal of revisions.
Ch 70 — Personnel, Wage and Salary Administration Plan
Ch 72 — Public Notice
§ 72-1 — Responsibilities of chairman.
Ch 73 — Purchasing
Ch 78 — Records and Reports
§ 78-1 — Town officers, board and committees to keep records open to public.
§ 78-6 — Selectmen to publish annual Town report; report detailed.
Ch 85 — Town Meetings
§ 85-1 — Annual Town Meeting date set.
§ 85-2 — Annual Town Meeting business session date set.
§ 85-3 — Hours for polls set.
§ 85-3.1 — Submission of articles.
§ 85-4 — Inclusion of articles on Town Meeting warrants.
§ 85-5 — Notice of Town Meetings to be posted and published.
§ 85-6 — Report of Finance and Warrant Committee to be distributed, to include collective bargaining agreements.
§ 85-7 — Notice of Town meetings to be mailed to representatives; notice of special Town meeting to be given to Finance and Warrant Committee.
§ 85-8 — Notice of adjournment to be posted.
§ 85-9 — Town Clerk to keep verbatim record of Town Meeting.
§ 85-10 — Town Meeting quorum.
§ 85-11 — Articles to be taken up in order.
§ 85-12 — Recommendation of Finance and Warrant Committee to be original motion; amendments to be in writing; procedure for omnibus adoption defined.
§ 85-14 — Precedence of motions.
§ 85-16 — Spokesperson to disclose financial interest.
§ 85-17 — Method of voting.
§ 85-22 — Voters and taxpayers have right to speak.
§ 85-23 — Reconsideration of vote limited.
§ 85-24 — Reconsideration of vote at adjourned meeting.
§ 85-25 — Committee reports.
§ 85-26 — Town Meeting not to be dissolved until all articles acted upon.
§ 85-27 — Certain appropriations to be considered and recommended.
§ 85-28 — Town Meeting to open with salute to flag.
§ 85-29 — Collective bargaining agreements to be included in report of Finance and Warrant Committee.
§ 85-30 — Text of acts for acceptance to be included in report of Finance and Warrant Committee.
§ 85-31 — Committee on by-laws established; duties set.
§ 85-32 — Two-thirds vote.
Ch 88 — Town Property
Ch 90 — Training
§ 90-1 — Training provided.
Ch 102 — Advertising Materials
Ch 106 — Alarm Systems
Ch 110 — Alcoholic Beverages
Ch 114 — Amusements
Ch 117 — Animals
§ 117-7 — Kennel licensing and regulations.
Ch 122 — Building Construction
Ch 125 — Buildings, Moving of
Ch 129 — Buildings, Numbering of
Ch 136 — Disorderly Conduct
Ch 141 — Drugs and Drug Products
Ch 146 — Use of Topsoil From Certain Work on Town Property
Ch 150 — Fees and Fines
§ 150-2 — Changes in amounts of fines and penalties.
Ch 154 — Fireworks and Weapons
Ch 160 — Garbage, Refuse and Waste Materials
Ch 168 — Historic Districts
§ 168-4 — Commission powers.
Ch 183 — Licenses and Permits
Ch 188 — Marijuana Establishments
Ch 192 — Noise
Ch 195 — Nuisances
Ch 199 — Parks and Public Places
§ 199-15 — Regulation of news boxes.
Ch 204 — Peddling, Soliciting and Sales
§ 204-10 — Appeals.
Ch 206 — Permanent Public Infrastructure
Ch 208 — Plastic Bag Reduction
Ch 210 — Property Maintenance
Ch 216 — Recycling
§ 216-2 — Dumpsters to comply with by-laws.
Ch 225 — Secondhand Dealers
Ch 229 — Sewers
§ 229-4 — Assessment of sewer betterments, user charges, and fees.
Ch 237 — Signs
§ 237-5 — Applicability.
§ 237-7 — DRAB advisory review.
§ 237-9 — DRAB waiver: criteria.
§ 237-16 — Exempt Signs.
237-35{9} — CREATIVE SIGN
237-36{5} — BUSINESS OR ESTABLISHMENT
237-36{25} — SIGN PANEL
Ch 242 — Storm Drains
§ 242-8 — Exemptions.
Ch 246 — Stormwater Management
§ 246-1 — Purpose.
§ 246-3 — Authority.
§ 246-7 — Procedures.
§ 246-10 — Stormwater management compliance certificate.
Ch 250 — Streets and Sidewalks
§ 250-8 — Laying out and improvements of private ways.
Ch 265 — Vehicles and Traffic
§ 265-1 — Legislative authority.
§ 265-14 — Fines for violations of truck ban.
Ch 271 — Wetlands Protection
§ 271-3 — Jurisdiction.
§ 271-4 — Exceptions.
§ 271-8 — Permits, determinations and conditions.
Ch 280 — Zoning
§ 280-1.5 — Amendments.
§ 280-2.1 — Types of districts.
§ 280-4.7 — Separate lots for dwellings.
§ 280-5.1 — Off-street parking and loading requirements.
§ 280-5.2 — Landscaping.
§ 280-6.1 — Adult Uses Overlay District.
§ 280-7.1 — Planned residential development standards.
§ 280-7.4 — Mixed use developments.
§ 280-7.6 — Senior campus district.
§ 280-7.7 — Special residential regulations.
§ 280-7.8 — Age restricted housing development.
§ 280-7.9 — Affordable housing.
§ 280-8.1 — Flood Plain Overlay District.
280-8.1B(3){7} — HISTORIC STRUCTURE
280-8.1B(3){14} — SUBSTANTIAL REPAIR OF A FOUNDATION
§ 280-8.2 — Aquifer Protection Overlay District.
§ 280-9.2 — Board of appeal.
§ 280-9.3 — Special permits.
§ 280-9.4 — Special permit for major nonresidential project.
§ 280-9.5 — Site plan review.
§ 280-9.6 — Design Review Advisory Board.
280-10.1{6} — ASSISTED LIVING RESIDENCE
280-10.1{26} — GENERAL SERVICE ESTABLISHMENT
280-10.1{49} — PARKING LOT
280-10.1{61} — STREET OR WAY
§ A300-1 — List of General Law acceptances and Special Acts.
§ DT-1 — Derivation Table of 1996 By-laws to 2014 Code
Ch DL — Disposition List
§ DL-1 — Disposition of legislation.
Ch ZDL — Zoning Disposition List
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Membership
§ C-2-5 — Presiding Officer
§ 12-35 — Committee membership.
§ 39-4 — Finance and Warrant Committee vacancies.
204-2{1} — CANVASSING
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Meters
§ 229-4 — Assessment of sewer betterments, user charges, and fees.
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Military leaves
§ A300-1 — List of General Law acceptances and Special Acts.
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Minor
§ 204-5 — Registration cards.
§ 204-6 — Exceptions.
§ 225-2 — Records.
§ 225-5 — Purchasing from or selling to minors.
§ 246-5 — Applicability.
§ 246-6 — Exemptions.
§ 271-16 — Filing fee schedule for permits for work within the resource areas or one-hundred-foot buffer zone to any resource area protected by this by-law.
§ 280-5.3 — Enclosure of uses.
§ 280-6.1 — Adult Uses Overlay District.
§ 280-7.6 — Senior campus district.
§ 280-8.4 — Historic Preservation Overlay District (HPOD).
§ 280-9.5 — Site plan review.
280-10.1{62} — STRUCTURE
280-10.1{70} — YARD, REQUIRED MINIMUM
§ 280-11.2 — Purpose.
§ 280-11.5 — Location.
§ A300-1 — List of General Law acceptances and Special Acts.
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Minutes
§ C-6-2 — Procedures
§ 72-1 — Responsibilities of chairman.
§ 85-20 — Duration of speaking may be limited.
§ 106-2 — Controlling and curtailing alarm system signals.
§ 192-2 — Prohibited noise.
§ 199-13 — Trespass upon parks after hours prohibited.
§ 237-19 — Design standards.
§ 250-9 — Discharge of collected ground or surface water.
§ 280-9.2 — Board of appeal.
§ 280-9.3 — Special permits.
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Mobile homes
280-10.1{62} — STRUCTURE
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Moderate-income housing
§ 280-7.9 — Affordable housing.
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Monuments
§ 18-3 — Town Manager authorized to sell cemetery lots.
§ 199-7 — Willful destruction of public property prohibited.
§ 210-2 — Tagging; graffiti.
237-35{27} — MONUMENT SIGN
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Motels
280-10.1{34} — LODGING HOUSE
280-10.1{43} — MOTEL OR HOTEL
280-10.1{58} — SHORT TERM RENTAL (PRIVATE SWIMMING POOL)
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Moving of buildings
§ 125-1 — Moving of buildings on public ways regulated.
Ch 160 — Garbage, Refuse and Waste Materials
Ch 192 — Noise
Ch 250 — Streets and Sidewalks
§ DT-1 — Derivation Table of 1996 By-laws to 2014 Code
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Multifamily dwellings
§ 271-16 — Filing fee schedule for permits for work within the resource areas or one-hundred-foot buffer zone to any resource area protected by this by-law.
§ 280-5.1 — Off-street parking and loading requirements.
§ 280-9.5 — Site plan review.