Introduced By: Senator Oster
Date Introduced : April 28, 1998
It is enacted by the General Assembly as follows:
SECTION 1. Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of that act passed at the January session, 1930 of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Saylesville Fire District in the Town of Lincoln", as amended, are further amended to read as follows:
"Section 1. All that portion of the village of Saylesville
in the town of Lincoln which is bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point at the easterly shore line of Scott's Pond,
so-called, said point being opposite the intersecting point of
Lonsdale Avenue and the westerly line of the road leading to Front
Street; thence running southeasterly, crossing said Lonsdale Avenue,
six hundred feet more or less to the westerly line of the Southern
New England Railroad right of way; thence southerly along the
westerly line of said Southern New England Railroad right of way
fifteen hundred feet; thence running southwesterly eight hundred
feet more or less to the boundary line between the town of Lincoln
and the city of Central Falls, at a point four hundred feet from
the easterly line of Lonsdale Avenue; thence westerly along said
boundary line four hundred ten feet more or less to an angle in
said boundary line, said angle being on the westerly line of Lonsdale
Avenue and fifty-two feet more or less north of the intersecting
point of the southerly line of Walker Street and Lonsdale Avenue;
thence southwesterly continuing along said city boundary line
one hundred thirty feet more or less to the Sayles Finishing Plants,
Inc. mill yard fence at top of hill; thence northwesterly along
said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence and almost parallel to
Walker Street, so-called, formerly known as Branch Avenue, one
hundred ninety feet more or less; thence southwesterly and continuing
along said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence and almost parallel
to Walker Street two hundred ten feet more or less; thence southwesterly
and continuing along said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence
one hundred seventy-five feet more or less; thence westerly along
said plant fence sixty-five feet more or less; thence southwesterly
along said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence twelve feet; thence
westerly along said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence one hundred
feet to the easterly line of said Walker Street; thence southwesterly
along the easterly line of said Walker Street ten hundred fifty
feet more or less to an angle in fence, said angle being twenty
feet more or less north of tenement house number two hundred eighteen
Walker Street; thence southeasterly about at right angle to Walker
Street along said Sayles Finishing Plant, Inc. fence one hundred
eighty feet more or less; thence turning about a right angle and
running westerly along said Sayles Finishing Plants, Inc. fence
two hundred thirty-two feet; thence southerly along said Sayles
Finishing Plants, Inc. fence sixteen hundred eighty-nine feet
more or less; thence easterly along said Sayles Finishing Plants,
Inc. fence six hundred fifty feet, said line being parallel to
and one hundred feet from the northerly line of Sutcliffe Avenue,
so-called; thence southerly along said Sayles Finishing Plants,
Inc. fence four hundred forty-six feet to the corner of said Sayles
Finishing Plants, Inc. fence; thence continuing southerly about
parallel to and three hundred twenty feet more or less from the
Blackstone Canal seven hundred feet more or less to the northeasterly
corner of Amsden H. and Orin Smith land, said corner being the
northeasterly corner of the Fairlawn fire district enacted by
the general assembly in the January session of A.D. 1922, chapter
2303; thence westerly along the northerly line of said Smith's
land and said Fairlawn fire district fourteen hundred seventy
feet to the easterly line of Smithfield Avenue; thence running
northwesterly crossing said Smithfield Avenue to the northeasterly
corner of land of George Montgomery and wife; thence westerly
at an interior angle eighty-three degrees and twenty-three minutes
with the westerly line of said Smithfield Avenue five hundred
feet more or less to the northwesterly corner of said Fairlawn
fire district; thence northwesterly six hundred fifty feet more
or less to the southerly line of Parker Street at a point nine
hundred fifty feet from the westerly line of Smithfield Avenue;
thence turning an approximate exterior angle ninety degrees and
running westerly four hundred fifty feet more or less to the southerly
point of the division line of the land of Kilburn Land Company
and land of Suburban Realty Corporation; thence westerly along
the southerly line of land of said Suburban Realty Corporation
three hundred feet more or less; thence northwesterly about parallel
to and five hundred feet from the southerly line of Parker Street
five hundred fifty feet more or less to a point three hundred
fifty feet from the southerly line of Parker Street and directly
opposite the easterly line of Fairlawn Avenue; thence northerly
across Parker Street and along the easterly line of Fairview Avenue
and across Progress Street eleven hundred fifty feet more or less
to a point five hundred feet north of the center line of Progress
Street; thence southerly parallel to and five hundred feet from
the center line of Progress Street fourteen hundred feet more
or less to a point opposite Wood Road; thence northerly on a straight
line eighteen hundred feet more or less to a point at the intersection
of the westerly line of Smithfield Avenue and the northerly shore
line of the stream leading from Barney's Pond to Sayles Pond,
so-called; thence westerly and northwesterly along the northerly
and easterly shore line of said stream and said Barney's Pond
to a point directly opposite the intersecting point of Chapel
Street and Smithfield Avenue, said point being four hundred fifty
feet more or less from the westerly line of said Smithfield Avenue;
thence northwesterly running parallel to and four hundred fifty
feet from said Smithfield Avenue eighteen hundred feet more or
less to a point two hundred feet from the southerly line of said
Smithfield Avenue or Great Pond, so-called; thence westerly running
parallel to and two hundred feet from the southerly line of said
Great Road four hundred feet more or less to the easterly line
of Samuel Arnold house lot, now part of the Metropolitan Park
System of Providence Plantations, Lincoln Woods Reservation; thence
northerly on a direct line along said Samuel Arnold house lot
and across said Great Road to the northerly line of said Great
Road; thence westerly along said Great Road along the front of
land of Everett Sherman three hundred thirty feet more or less
to the southwesterly corner of said Everett Sherman land; thence
northerly along the westerly line of said Everett Sherman land
about at right angles to said Great Road to a point three hundred
feet from the northerly line of said Great Road; thence easterly
running parallel to and three hundred feet from the northerly
line of said Great Road and Front Street to a point directly on
line with the easterly line of house lot belonging to Everett
Sherman situated on the southerly side of Front Street at the
corner of said Front Street and Smithfield Avenue, said point
being the northwesterly corner of the Lonsdale fire district;
thence southerly along the westerly line of said Lonsdale fire
district crossing Front Street and running along the easterly
line of land of Everett Sherman, Prescott Wilbur and Albert Parks
to a point two hundred feet south of the southerly line of said
Front Street; thence easterly running parallel to and two hundred
feet from the southerly line of said Front Street along the southerly
boundary line of said Lonsdale fire district three hundred fifty
feet more or less to a point five hundred feet from the easterly
line of Smithfield Avenue; thence southeasterly parallel to and
five hundred feet from Smithfield Avenue to a point five hundred
feet from the northeasterly line of Chapel Street; thence southeasterly
parallel to and five hundred feet from the northeasterly line
of Chapel Street to a point five hundred feet from the northerly
line of Tucker Street; thence northeasterly and southeasterly
parallel to and five hundred feet from the northeasterly line
of Tucker Street to the westerly shore line of Scott's Pond; thence
southerly, and easterly and northerly along the shore line of
Scott's Pond to the place of beginning; and however bounded and
described, is meant and intended to describe the land set off
for the proposed Saylesville fire district, as shown by the {DEL accompanying DEL}
map drawn by T.C. Mandeville, February, 1929, {ADD and ADD} {DEL All DEL}
{ADD all ADD} that portion of the town of Lincoln which is bounded
and described as follows: Beginning at a point in the division
line between the town of Lincoln and the city of Pawtucket on
the easterly line of Cypress Street, as laid out on the heirs
of Horace Weeden plat No. 3, recorded in the town clerk's office
in said town of Lincoln; thence northerly along the easterly line
of said Cypress Street about 925 feet to the northeasterly corner
of said Weeden plat; thence westerly along the northerly line
of said Weeden plat about 720 feet to the Daniel Meader plat,
recorded in the town clerk's office in said town of Lincoln; thence
northeasterly bounding northwesterly by said Meader plat, and
land of Amsden H. and Orin Smith about 895 feet to the northeasterly
corner of said Smith's land; thence westerly along the northerly
line of said Smith's land about 1470 feet to the easterly line
of Smithfield Avenue; thence northwesterly crossing said Smithfield
Avenue to the northeasterly corner of land of George Montgomery
and wife; thence westerly at an interior angle of 96 degrees 37'
with the westerly line of said Smithfield Avenue about 500 feet
to a corner; thence southwesterly to a point in the northeasterly
line of Reservoir Avenue, said point being located 700 feet northwesterly
from the northwesterly corner of Smithfield and Reservoir Avenues,
thence southwesterly crossing said Reservoir Avenue to the northwesterly
corner of the Fairlawn Heights plat No. 2, recorded in the town
clerk's office of said town of Lincoln; thence southwesterly along
the northwesterly line of said Fairlawn Heights plat No. 2 about
770 feet to the northeasterly line of Cobble Hill road; thence
southeasterly along the northeasterly line of said Cobble Hill
road about 275 feet to the said division line between the town
of Lincoln and the city of Pawtucket; thence easterly along said
division line to the point of beginning; and however bounded and
described is meant and intended to describe the land {DEL set
off for the proposed Fairlawn fire district DEL}, as shown
by the {DEL accompanying DEL} map drawn by H.R. Smart,
January, 1922, {DEL is hereby incorporated into a district
to be called "Fairlawn Fire District in the town of Lincoln."
Said district may have a common seal, sue and be sued and enjoy
the other powers generally incident to corporation. DEL}
is hereby incorporate into a district to be called "Saylesville
Fire District in the Town of Lincoln." Said district may
have a common seal, sue and be sued, and enjoy the other powers
generally incident to corporations.
Section 2. The residents of the Saylesville Fire District qualified to vote and act in all meetings of the corporation.
Section 3. The annual meeting of the said corporation shall
be held on the first {DEL Friday DEL} {ADD Monday ADD} of
March.
Section 4. The qualified voters at each annual meeting, and at any other meeting when vacancies occur, may elect officers who shall be qualified electors of said district; which officers shall consist of a moderator, clerk, treasurer and three auditors. There shall be a Board of Five firewards. The members of the Board of Firewards shall serve for three years, one of whom shall be elected at each annual meeting, and at any other meeting when vacancies occur. The powers and duties of the foregoing officers shall be the same as like officers of towns in this state in their respective towns and districts.
There shall also be a Board of Personnel which shall consist of the board of five Firewards, the Moderator and member elected from the public at each annual meeting. The Moderator will serve as the chairman of the Personnel Board. The Personnel Board shall have the power to appoint the chief, assistant chiefs, officers and personnel of the Saylesville Fire Department.
The Fire Chief shall head the Saylesville Fire Department and have the following duties:
(1) to recruit, enlist, supervise and train men in fire fighting techniques.
(2) to maintain and supervise the fire alarm system.
(3) to be tax collector for the district.
(4) to maintain the fire trucks, station and equipment.
(5) to institute a fire prevention and inspection program within district.
(6) to carry out such other duties as the Board of Firewards shall assign to the chief.
Section 5. Said qualified voters at any legal meeting shall
have a power to order such taxes and provide for the assessing
and collecting of the same on the taxable inhabitants and property
in said district, as they shall deem necessary for the operation
of the fire district and such taxes so ordered shall be assessed
by the assessors of said district on the taxable inhabitants and
property therein according to the last valuation made by the assessors
of the town next previous to said assessment, adding, however,
any taxable property which may have been omitted by said town
assessors, or firewards acquires; and in assessing and collecting
of said taxes such proceedings shall be had by the officers of
said district, as near as may be, as are required to be had by
corresponding officers of towns in assessing and collecting town
taxes. The qualified voters at the annual meeting shall set the
minimum charge for any tax bill {ADD , ADD} {ADD not ADD} {DEL Not DEL}
to exceed $10.00.
Section 6. Said qualified voters shall have power to enact by-laws by them judged necessary and expedient for carrying the provisions of this act into effect and to prescribe the powers and duties of the officers of said district.
Section 7. The firewards elected by said district shall publicly, within four days next preceding the day of holding any regular meeting of said fire district, make a corrected list of names of all persons entitled to vote in such meeting, and certify and deliver the same to the moderator before the time shall arrive for calling of the meeting to order. In making such list the firewards shall take from the last corrected voting list of the Town of Lincoln the names of all persons residing within the limits of said district qualified to vote in the Town of Lincoln, and place said names upon the list to be made up by them, and shall add thereto the names of all persons residing within said district who shall be so qualified and whose names shall not be upon said voting list, and shall cause printed notices of the time and place named by them to make such a list to be posted in the place of the meeting within said district, not more than ten nor less than five days before the time appointed for such district meeting, and the list so made and certified shall be used in determining any question before such meeting when demanded by ten of the voters present; and thereupon the moderator shall receive the voted of all persons whose names are upon such list, and shall reject the votes of all persons claiming to vote whose names are not thereon.
Section 8. The firefighters of the Saylesville Fire Department appointed in accordance with this act and the by-laws of the corporation shall be entitled to the exemptions, privileges and remedies provided by the general laws of the State for the members of the fire departments of cities and towns.
Section 9. Said qualified voters may hold special meetings, which, as well as the annual meetings, shall be notified in such manner as they shall prescribe, and it shall be the duties of the clerk to call a special meeting upon written application signed by thirteen or more qualified voters of said district, and whenever the subject of ordering a tax is to be acted on, the same shall be mentioned in the notice, unless it be an annual meeting.
Section 10. (1) Said district is hereby authorized and empowered to raise money upon its official note or notes, signed by its treasurer, in such sum or sums, as said district may, at any regular or special meeting, by vote determine; provided, however, that said sums shall not exceed in the aggregate the sum of one million dollars (1,000,000) at any not time; and the vote authorizing and empowering the treasurer to raise money upon his official note or notes shall be construed as authority for the renewal or renewals of any note or notes he/she may have issued pursuant to said vote; and said note or notes, so issued, shall be obligatory upon said district in the same manner and to the same extent as other debts lawfully contracted by said district."
SECTION 2. The act passed at the January session 1922 of the General Assembly entitled "An Act to Incorporate the Fairlawn Fire District in the Town of Lincoln" as amended, is hereby repealed in its entirety and all land that constitutes the Fairlawn Fire District is merged and made part of Saylesville Fire District.
SECTION 3. This act shall take effect upon passage.
