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�65 Town of Mashpee Town of Mashpee garbage and refuse, and signs shall Section 9. Shower Baths BOARD OF PUBLIC HEALTH be posted indicating the location of Camps provided with shower baths such facilities. shall have separate compartments Mashpee, Mass. , Section 4. Water Supply for each sex. A minimum of one Every camp shall have a water shower head for each sex shall be July 90, 1940. supply of safe, Sanitary quality and Provided for camps up to 20 persons, sufficient in quantity for the max- and one additional head for each (9 Imum population using the camp additional 20 persons or fraction Notice Is hereby given by publish- at any time. Such water supply thereof. Concrete floors and suit- ing once a week for three successive Rules and Regulations for shall be easily obtainable from its able waste water disposal shall also weeks of the adoption by the Town Recreational Camps, Overnight source or from faucets or bubblers be installed. of Mashpee of the following: Camps or Cabins and on a pipe distribution system. Dip- Section 10. Living Quarters BY-LAW REGULATING Trailer Camps ping of receptacles into the source Livin RECREATIONAL CAMPS, Foreword and Interpretations rmi- of supply shall not be permitted. tories, dining dining rooms,ckitchens,cobath OVERNIGHT CABINS, OR Chapter 416 of the Acts of the Common drinking vessels shall Oct and toilet rooms, laundries, and TRAILER CAMPS, Massachusetts Legislature for the be provided or permitted. other shelters shall be properly the same having been voted ata year 1939 requires the licensing by Drinking fountains shall be of screened, well ventilated and lighted, special town, meeting on June 19, the local board of health of all re- sanitary design and construction. free from vermin and insects, and 1940, and approved by the Attorney creational camps, overnight camps Any source of water supply, the the floors raised not less than 12 General on July 22, 1940. or cabins, and trailer camps in this water of which is found to be pol- inches from the ground. Screen FLORA E. AMOS, Commonwealth.This law directs the luted or of questionable quality, doors shall be of the self-closing Town Clerk of Mashpee. State Department of Public Health, shall be posted as unsafe. type. The floors of all kitchens, Article 4. see IY the Town will subsequent the granting of the Section 5Sewage and Waste Water dining rooms, bath, toilet and wash vote to adoptt a Regulating license and upon notice by the local Recreational Camps,amps, u .Overnight 1 board, to inspect the premises to Disposal rooms and laundries shall be water Camps, Cabins, or Trailer Camps, determine that the sources of water No camp shall be operated with- tight. to be granted under the following supplyout facilities adequate for the pro- No windows shall open directly and means of sewage dis- sections or take any other action poral are sanitary, into an per disposal of the sewage and Y enclosed garage space. thereon. A recreational camp is interpreted waste water.There shall be separate All plumbing fixtures shall be Section 1. No person shall cone to mean a camp conducted by an accommodations for each sex, so .,properly trapped and vented and duct, control, manage, or operate organization located as to be easily accessible to made sanitary in every particular, g Primarily for recre- piping directly or Indirectly, any recrea- � ationa] purposes. all parts of the camp. and allconditions shall be tional camps, overnight camps, Camps so located and equipped in accordance with the Plumbing An overnight camp or cabin is p Rules formulated b cabins, or trailer camps unless he is that water under suitable pressure y the State Ex- the holder of license granted under parcel of land used, either with or and 'public sewers are available shalt Sectio s of Plumbers as required by r he the following section. without charge, for be equipped with flush toilets and Section 9 of Chapter 142 of the g public camping public sewerage Section 2. The Selectmen of the by transient guests or upon which connected with the g General Laws. Town of Mashpee, In each instance cabins, tents, tent-houses, or similar system. Camps not so located shall Section 11. Caretaker and Main- after notice and a hearing, may I facilities are provided for use by be provided. with equipment ade- tenance of Sanitary Conditions grant and may suspend or revoke uate for the disposal of the sewage or cause, license for recreational the public for temporary lodging q pThe camp shall be supervised by purposes. and waste water in a sanitary a capable manager or caretaker who camps, overnight camps, cabins, of A trailer camp or park is inter- manner. shall reside at the cam or visit it 1 trailer camps located, or to be lo- prated to mean any tract or parcel There shall be at least one toilet every da when it is occu Gated in the town of Mashpee,which seat for each 15 campers when the y pied. It license, unless previously suspended of land on which space available shall be the duty of the manager or P y p for two or more trailer coaches is camp is operating to full capacity caretaker to keep the camp and its I or revoked, shall expire on Decem rented or held out far rent, or on ed for one urinal of vitreous material equipment in a clean and sanitary her thirty-first in the year of issue. shall also be provided each 25 The fee for such license shall be which free occupancy or camping condition. $2.00. for such number is permitted to men' The owner or management of Section 3. Notice of hearingshall trailer owners or users. No privy shall be located within each camp shall assume responsibil- g y publication of thtime Overnight cabins, tents, and trail- 50 feet of any kitchen;dining room, ity for maintaining the camp in be given b ers are interpreted to mean any one mess hall or other place where food proper sanitary condition In accord- .and place thereof In a newspaper is prepared or served. published within the county of or two-room building, tent, house- once with these rules and regu- car or automobile trailer, res Toilet structures shall be fly- lations, copies of which shall be Barnstable, the said publication re poc- tight, well lighted and ventilated. the be nheaot ring,ess t the expenhan one se of b such quarters ed for temporary living In cleaning septic tanks, cesspools, camp ed at a conspicuous place in the publication to be borne by the ap- A unit is interpreted to mean a chemical toilets, privy vaults or pits, The camp when closed for the plicant. section of ground in any camp used, the contents shall be removed and season shall be left clean and in a or designed disposed of in a manner satisfac Section 4. The Board of Select- g ed for use, as a location tory sanitary condition. then may make rules and regula- for a single overnight cabin, house- to the Board of Health of Mashpee Section 12. Communicable Disease • tions governing the conduct of any car, tent or trailer, so that they will not become a recreational camp, overnight camps, menace to the public health, create Whenever a case of disease dan- cabins, or trailer camps in the Town RULES AND REGULATIONS a nuisance, or contaminate any gerous to the public is discovered or water supply or bathing place. Vault any unusual amount of illness cc- of Mashpee. i Section 1. Registration and License contents shall be treated frequently curs in any camp, the person in Section 5. Whoever conducts, con- The management of any organized by sprinkling with chloride of lime charge shall at once notify the trols, manages or operates any, re- camp in the town of Mashpee cov- or a compound equally effective for Board of Health of Mashpee. The creation camps, overnight camps, ered by Chapter 416 of the Acts of cabins,or trailer camps in the Town 1939 shall annual a Preventing nuisance. patient shall be isolated and not of Mashpee which is not licensed to PPIY for a Section 6. Disposal of Garbage and removed from the camp except by under Section 2, shall be license in writing to the Board of Rubbish order of the board of health. punished Health of Mashpee, This application �---- by afl�e of not more than twenty Every camp shall be provided with Section 13. Trailer Camps shall state the location and type of dollars. cam the a metal, tight-covered receptacles for The foregoing regulations shall P. persons mate maximum Article 4 voted as read. number of persons by whom It is to garbage, placed at a suitable point apply to trailer camps or parks. The Attested Copy, be used, the probable duration of or points at the camp and sufficient following special regulations also FLORA E. AMOS, occupancy, the in number to contain all such gar- shall apply: Town Clerk, p y Proposed sources of wateri, anbage. All garbage shall be deposited 1. Each trailer unit shall have a Boston, Mass. d milk supply for the camp in them. The contents of these cov- area of t less than 600 square feet, July 22, 1940. and the proposed method of sewageThe ennoq 4 and garbage disposal. If the camp ered receptacles shall be removed with suitable markers.set at each approved. thin by-laws 15 hereby is used the year around, such ap- daily when the camp is in use and, corner. No unit shall be permitted > i plication shall be made annually under proper supervision, buried or to accommodate more than one PAUL A. DEVE12, not later than January 1: or, if used disposed of in a sanitary manner trailer. The minimum distance be- Attorney General- during only a portion of the year, � so as not to create a nuisance. tween trailers, a trailer and a build- — (July 30, Aug. 6, 13) Garbage shall not be thrown or Ing, or a trailer and a property line, at least 30 days in advance of the date when the requested license is deposited in any ravine, ditch or shall be 30 feet. The minimum dis- �, desired to take effect. gutter, on any street or highway, tante from a street line to a trailer into any waters, or be permitted to shall be 15 feet. ' y Section 2. Camp Site remain exposed upon the surface 2. No toilet installed in any trail- The camp site shall be such that of-the ground. er coach shall, except in case of it is practicable to provide and Garbage receptacles shall be thor- sickness, be used while the trailer maintain proper sanitary facilities. oughly washed at frequent intervals. is parked in a trailer camp. Sink The location shall be on porous, Every camp shall be provided with and other wastes shall not be dis- well-draining soil, and shall afford suitable receptacles with tight cov- charged onto the ground, but shall facilities for obtaining a good water ers for rubbish,and all waste papers, be discharged into a suitable re- supply and a safe method of sewage bottles and tin cans shall be placed ceptacle or through a connection disposal. in them. The contents shall be re- with a pipe leading to a sewer, cess- It shall be of adequate size to moved at least twice a week when pool or other subsurface disposal - prevent overcrowding. Each camp- the camp is in use and burned or works. Ing unit shall contain not less than otherwise disposed of in a sanitary Section 14. Penalty 400 square feet of usable space, and manner under proper supervision. Section 32E of Chapter 416 of the no unit shall be permitted to ac- Section 7. Food Acts of 1939 reads as follows: commodate more than one overnight The quality and handling of all "Whoever conducts,controls,man- cabin or tent. foods sold or offered for sale on the ages or operates any camp or cabin No camp shall be established on camp premises shall conform to the subject to sections thirty-two A to the watershed of a public water regulations of the Board of Health thirty-two C, inclusive, which is not supply until proper sanitary facil- of Mashpee and to the Tercentenary licensed under section thirty-two B, ities have been provided and all Edition of the General Laws as shall be punished by a fine of not sanitary facilities shall be in ac- amended or as may hereafter be less than ten nor more than one cordance with the rules and regu- amended. hundred dollars.,, lations for the sanitary protection Section 8. Bathing Places of public water supplies made by STEVEN A. PETERS, Ch. the State Department of Public No bathing place shall be estab- LEO H PETERS Health under the provisions of Sec- IMed or used which is subject to tion 160,Chapter 111, General Laws. dangerous contamination. Swim- THEODORE JONAS, 4 Section 3. Plan of Camp ming and wading pools and bathing Board of Health places shall be operated and main- Town of Mashpee. Every camp shall have available tained in accordance with the re- for inspection a plan or sketch in- commendations of the Joint Com- *Copies of this report may be ob- dicating the location of all local mittee on Bathing Places of the tained from the office of the State sources of water supply and other Conference of State Sanitary En- Department of Public Health, upon sanitary facilities including all gineers and the American Public request. toilets, cesspools and receptacles for Health Association!