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Richard I. McIntosh
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745-0213 January 13, 1984
Joseph DeForrest /�\
137 Standley St.
Beverly,Ma 01915 Re: 15-17 Reed Street
Dear Mr. Joseph DeForrest:
At the request of the Salem Fire Department I made an
inspection at the referenced address for an assessment of
fire damage.
It is my opinion that this building is structurally unsound,
and as empowered by Section 124.0 of the Massachusetts State
Building Code, I hereby order you to remove the building or make
it safe for occupancy.
Failure to comply with this order shall result in the
forming of a Board of Survey to determine the future of this
building.
Enclosed is a copy of Section 124.0 of the Building Code.
Very truly yours,
Maurice Martineau
Ass't Building Inspector
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cc: City Solicitor
Captain Goggin
Certified Mail # P 474 720 697
SECTION 124.0 UNSAFE BUILDINGS - SURVEY BOARD
124.1 DUTIES OF BUILDING OFFICIAL - UNSAFE BUILDINGS: The build-
ing official, immediately upon being informed by report or other-
wise that a building or other structure or anything attached there-
to or connected therewith is dangerous to life or limb or that any
building in that city or town is unused, uninhabited or abandoned,
and open to the weather, shall inspect the same; and he shall forth-
with in writing notify the owner as provided in section 122.12,
as defined in article 2, to remove it or make it safe if it appears
to him. to be dangerous, or to make it secure if it is unused, unin-
habited or abandoned and open to the weather. If it appears that
such structure would be especially unsafe in case of fire, it shall
be deemed dangerous within the meaning hereof, and the building
official may affix in a conspicuous place upon its exterior walls
a notice of its dangerous condition, which shall not be re-moved
or defaced without authority from him.
124.2 REMOVAL OR MAKING STRUCTURE SAFE - PUTTING UP FENCE: Any
person so notified shall be allowed until twelve o'clock noon
of the day following the service of the notice in which to begin,
to remove such structure or make it safe, or to make it secure,
and he shall employ sufficient labor speedily to make it safe
or .remove itor to make it secure; but if the public safety so
requires and if the mayor or selectmen so order, the building
official may immediately' enter upon the premises with the necessary
workmen and assistants and cause such unsafe structure to be made
safe or demolished without delay and a proper fence put up for
the protection of passersby, or to be made secure.
124.3 FAILURE TO REMOVE OR MAKE STRUCTURE SAFE, SURVEY BOARD,
SURVEY, REPORT: If an owner, as defined in article 2, of such un-
safe -structure refuses or neglects to comply with the require-
ments of such notice within the specified time limit, and such structure E
is not made safe or taken down as ordered, therein, a careful survey
of the premises shall be made by a board consisting; in a city, of
} a city engineer, the head of the fire department, as such term is
defined in Section 1 of Chapter 148 of the Massachusetts General Laws
Annotated, as amended, and one disinterested person to be appointed
by the building official; and, in a town, of a surveyor, the head
of the fire department and one disinterested person to be appointed
by a building official. In the absence of any of the above officers
or individuals, the mayor or selectmen shall designate one or more
officers or other suitable persons in place of the officers so named
as members of said board. A written report of such survey shall be _
made, and a copy thereof served on such owner.
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CITY OF SALEM,-HEALTH 'DEPARTMENT
BOARD OF HEALTH
Salem, Massachusetts 01970
ROBERT E. BLENKHORN 9 NORTH STREET
HEALTH AGENT February 7, 1984
(617) 741-1800
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Joseph DeForrest �
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Dear Sir:
Due to the recent fire at your property located at 15 Reed Street
in the City of Salem, we hereby request that you take immediate '
action to clean up any and all debris that resulted from said ifire
and take the necessary measures to eliminate the existing condition.
If you have any further questions, please call us.
Very truly yours,
FOR
f�THE
- BOARD OF HEALTH
ROBERT E. BLENKHORN
HEALTH AGENT
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cc:
Fire Prevention,i 48 Lafayette St.
R.T. McIntosh, Bldg. Inspector
Louis Mroz, Director Constituent Services