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18-5   EXEMPTIONS FOR PUBLIC OFFICIALS.
   No Board, Officer or employee of the City or of the County of Suffolk shall be required to pay any fee for any license or permit required of it or him or her personally in the performance of its or his or her official duties; and no such Board, Officer or employee requiring in the performance of its or his or her official duties any services or work by the city or any Department, Board or Officer thereof shall be required to pay any charge for such services or work
(Ord. 1957 c. 4; Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 30 § 4; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 453; CBC 1985 18-5)
18-6   OTHER EXEMPTIONS.
   Nothing in Section 18-1 shall be construed to affect in any way the exemption from a fee or charge for a permit or license provided by Section 6 of Chapter 572 of the Acts of 1949 or by Section 6 of Chapter 669 of the Acts of 1953 or by any similar statute.
(Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 30 § 5; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 454; CBC 1985 18-6)
Cross-reference:
   St. 1979 c. 572 § 6; St. 1953 c. 669 § 6
18-7   EXEMPTION FOR BOSTON HOUSING AUTHORITY.
   Neither the Boston Housing Authority nor any person acting in its stead shall be charged any fee for any license or permit for which the fee may be fixed by ordinance under Chapter 222 of the Acts of 1949.
(Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 30 § 6; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 455; CBC 1985 18-7)
Cross-reference:
   St. 1949 c. 222; § 10-1
18-8   CITY RECORD: ADVERTISING AND SUBSCRIPTION CHARGES.
   The charge to be paid by Boards and Officers for the publication of advertisements in the City Record shall be $6 for each ½ inch or fraction thereof. The City Record shall be sold on the following terms payable in advance: annual subscription, $50; single copy, $2.
(Rev. Ord. 1961 c. 30 § 7; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 456; Ord. 1982 c. 8; Ord. 1985 c. 4 § 78; CBC 1985 18-8; Ord. 1990 c. 5, Ch. 3 § 1)
18-9   ANNUAL SEWER USE CHARGES.
   (A)   Under authority of M.G.L. Chapter 83, Section 16 and every other authority hereunto enabling, the annual charge for the use of the common sewers of the city by every estate in the city having one or more particular sewers discharging into such common sewers is hereby established as a primary charge of $5, an additional charge of $1 for every 1,000 cubic feet, in excess of 5,000 cubic feet, of water supplied by the city to such estate and billed in the calendar year in which the charge established by this Section is assessed, and a further charge of $1 for every 1,000 cubic feet of water derived or received by such estate from any other source during the period covered by such billing; provided, however, that if water so supplied, derived or received is used on the estate in such a manner as not to enter the common sewers of the city, in determining the charge established by this Section the quantity of water so used shall be deducted from the aggregate amount of water so supplied, derived or received during such period; provided further that in no case shall any charge be assessed under this Section in excess of a just and equitable charge; and provided also that persons exempt from the payment of water rates and charges, but only such persons, shall be exempt from the charge established by this Section.
   (B)   The quantity of water supplied by the city through a water meter in good working order shall be determined by the readings of such meter. The quantity of all other water shall be estimated by the Commissioner of Public Works by any reasonable and equitable method apt in the circumstances of the particular case to determine the quantity of water discharged through the particular sewer or sewers of the estate into the common sewers of the city; provided, however, in the case of water not supplied by the city but derived or received by an estate from another source, and also in the case of water used on an estate in such a manner as not to enter the common sewers of the city, that if such water is measured by one or more water meters in good working order installed and maintained on the estate by the Commissioner of Public Works at the request and expense of the owner or tenant of such estate, the quantity of water so derived or received, or the quantity of water so used, or both, as the case may be, shall be determined by the readings of such meter or meters. Water supplied by the city or any other source exclusively for fire pipe purposes shall not be included in determining the charge established by this Section.
   (C)   During the last three months of every calendar year, the Commissioner of Public Works shall assess upon every estate in the city having a particular sewer discharging into the common sewers of the city the charge established by this Section, and in January of the next following calendar year certify to the Commissioner of Assessing a list of such charges. Said Commissioner shall in his or her order of assessment designate as the owner of a parcel assessed the person who was liable to assessment therefor on the preceding January 1 under the provisions of M.G.L. Chapter 59.
(Ord. 1961 c. 11; Ord. 1962 c. 13; Ord. 1962 c. 14; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Sup. 1971) c. 30 § 8; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 457; CBC 1985 18-9)
Cross-reference:
   M.G.L. Chapter 59; M.G.L. Chapter 83, Section 16; Subsection 11-6.1
Editor’s note:
   The water works system and the sewer works system of the Department of Public Works were abolished and the duties transferred to the Boston Water and Sewer Commission by Ch. 436 of the Acts of 1977.
18-10   PUBLIC TELEPHONES.
   The Public Improvement Commission be and it hereby is authorized, from time to time, to enter into agreements with the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company providing for the installation of public telephone booths on various public sidewalks in the city and providing further for the payment to the city by the New England Telephone and Telegraph Company of commissions established in accordance with the regulations and standard rates of commission, from to time, adopted by the Company.
(Ord. 1964 c. 1; Rev. Ord. 1961 (Sup. 1971) c. 30 § 9; CBC 1975 Ord. T14 § 458; CBC 1985 18-10)
Cross-reference:
   Section 8-7
18-11   FEE FOR AUGMENTED FIRE SERVICE.
Editor’s note:
   This Section shall be read against Emerson College vs. City of Boston et al, 391 Mass. 415 which held the provisions of said Section invalid.
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