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CHAPTER I: GENERAL PROVISIONS
Section
1-1   DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
1-2   CITY SEAL AND CITY FLAG
   1-2.1   City Seal
   1-2.2   Municipal Standard and City Flag
   1-2.3   City Colors
   1-2.4   Displaying Flag on City Hall and Boston Common
   1-2.5   Further Uses of Flag
   1-2.6   Prohibitions on Use of Flag
   1-2.7   Penalties
   1-2.8   Custodian
1-3   DISPLAY OF UNITED STATES FLAG
1-3A   DISPLAY OF FLAGS ON CITY HALL PROPERTY
   1-3A.1   Policy
   1-3A.2   Order of Precedence
   1-3A.3   Special Occasions of Federal, Commonwealth and Local Proclamation
   1-3A.4   Other Flags
1-4   CITY AUTOMOBILES
1-5   CONTROL OF ROOMS IN CITY HALL
1-6   PROHIBITING ADVERTISING OF NAME OF ELECTED OFFICIAL ON CITY PUBLICATIONS
1-7   PROHIBITING USE OF WORD MAYOR IN TITLES OF PERSONS NOT SO DESIGNATED BY STATUTE
   1-7.1   Use of Title “Mayor”
1-1   DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF CONSTRUCTION.
   The following rules of construction shall be observed for this and every other ordinance, unless inconsistent with the manifest intent of the Boston City Council or the context of the ordinance.
   (A)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not revive an ordinance in force before, or at the time when, the ordinance repealed took effect.
   (B)   The repeal of an ordinance shall not affect any punishment or penalty incurred before the repeal took effect, or any suit, prosecution or proceeding pending at the time of the repeal, for a violation of such ordinance.
   (C)   Words importing the singular shall include the plural, words importing the plural shall include the singular and words importing the masculine gender shall include women and Boards.
   (D)   The word STREET shall mean and include all public ways, alleys, lanes, courts and sidewalks, and those parts of public squares and places which form traveled parts of highways.
   (E)   The words PUBLIC GROUNDS shall mean and include the common and public garden, the public lands under the charge of the Parks and Recreation Department and those parts of public squares and places which do not form traveled parts of highways.
   (F)   The word OWNER, applied to a building or land, shall mean and include any part owner, joint owner, tenant in common or joint tenant, of the whole or of a part of such building or land.
   (G)   The word TENANT or OCCUPANT, applied to a building or land, shall mean and include any person who occupies the whole or a part of such building or land, either alone or with others.
   (H)   The word PERSON shall mean and include firms and corporations.
   (I)   The word OFFICER shall mean and include Officers and Boards in charge of Departments and the members of such Boards; and the word SUBORDINATE shall include all assistants, deputies and employees appointed by an Officer.
   (J)   The words FANEUIL-HALL MARKET shall mean and include the lower floors, porches and cellar of the building called “Faneuil Hall”.
   (K)   The words FANEUIL-HALL MARKET LIMITS shall mean and include Faneuil-Hall Market as defined in division (J) above, and the territory included within the following boundary, viz.: Beginning in the northerly line of North Market Street extended, at a point 35 feet distant westerly from the sidewalk on the easterly side of Commercial Street; thence parallel with and 35 feet distant westerly from said sidewalk, to a line 35 feet distant northerly from the sidewalk on the southerly side of South Market Street extended; thence by a line parallel with and 35 feet distant northerly from said sidewalk to Merchants Row; thence diagonally across Merchants Row to the nearest point in a line 20 feet distant northerly from the sidewalk on the southerly side of Faneuil Hall Square; thence by a line parallel with and 20 feet outside of the sidewalk of said square and North Market Street to Merchants Row; thence diagonally across said Merchants Row to the northeast corner of said Merchants Row and North Market Street; thence by the northerly side of said North Market Street to the point of beginning; but excluding any territory which is the subject of that certain redevelopment agreement made as of May 21, 1974, by and between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Inc.
   (L)   The words MARKET LIMITS, without any words of limitation preceding them, shall mean and include the territory bounded as follows: Beginning at the southerly corner of Atlantic Avenue and State Street; thence running west by the southerly line of State Street to India Street; thence north to the center line of State Street; thence west by the center line of State Street to the line of the curbstone on the easterly side of Commercial Street produced to the centerline of State Street; thence north by the line of the curbstone on the easterly side of Commercial Street produced to the center of State Street to a point in the curbstone on the easterly side of Commercial Street opposite the corner of said street and State Street; thence west across Commercial Street to the westerly corner of Commercial Street and State Street; thence north by the westerly line of Commercial Street to Chatham Street; thence west by the southerly line of Chatham Street and by said line produced to the westerly line of Merchants Row; thence north by the westerly line, west by the southerly line, and again north by the westerly line of Merchants Row to Faneuil Hall Square; thence west by the southerly line and north by the westerly line of Faneuil Hall Square to Dock Square; thence west by the southerly line of Dock Square to Exchange Street; thence north by the easterly line of Exchange Street produced across Dock Square; thence north by the westerly line of Dock Square and across Elm Street to the corner of Elm and Union Streets; thence north by the westerly line of Union Street to the southerly corner of Friend and Union Streets; thence east across Union Street to the corner of Union and North Streets; thence east by the northerly line and northeast by the northwesterly line of North Street to Blackstone Street; thence northwest by the southwesterly line of Blackstone Street to Haymaker Square; thence north across Blackstone Street to the corner of Cross and Blackstone Streets; thence southeast by the northeasterly line of Blackstone Street to the corner of Blackstone and North Streets; thence northeast by the northwesterly line of North Street to the northerly corner of North and Richmond Streets; thence crossing North Street, southeast by the northeasterly line and east by the northerly line of Richmond Street to the northerly corner of said street and Atlantic Avenue; thence east by the northerly line of Richmond Street produced across Atlantic Avenue to the easterly side thereof; thence south by the easterly line of Atlantic Avenue to the northerly corner of said avenue and India Wharf; thence west across Atlantic Avenue to the northerly corner of said avenue and India Street; and thence north by the westerly line of Atlantic Avenue to the point of beginning. All said Faneuil-Hall MARKET LIMITS are shown in red, and said MARKET LIMITS are shown in blue, on a plan numbered L-2826 and marked: “Faneuil Hall Market Limits and Market Limits in the City of Boston, February 16,1897, William Jackson, City Engineer”, and filed in the Office of the Commissioner of Public Works; but excluding any territory which is the subject of that certain redevelopment agreement made as of May 21, 1974, by and between the Boston Redevelopment Authority and Faneuil Hall Marketplace, Inc.
   (M)   Words purporting to give a joint authority to three or more Officers or other persons shall be construed as giving such authority to a majority of such Officers or persons.
   (N)   Words prohibiting anything from being done, except in accordance with a license or permit or authority from a Board or Officer, shall be construed as giving such Board or Officer power to license or permit or authorize such thing to be done.
(Para 5. Ord. 1954 c. 2 § 1; Para 9. Ord. 1953 c. 8 § 1; Para 10. Ord. 1974 c. 15 § 1; Para 11. Ord. May 18, 1866, Ord. 1974 c. 15 § 2; Para 12. St. 1896 c. 376, St. 1907 c. 584, Ord. 1954 c. 2 § 1; Ord. 1974 c. 15 § 3; Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 1 § 1; Ord. 1974 c. 15; CBC 1975 Ord. T1 § 1; CBC 1985 1-1)
1-2   CITY SEAL AND CITY FLAG.
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