Par. 1. - The provisions of this act shall not apply to public highway and railway bridges, quays, or wharves nor to buildings on land ceded to the United States or owned and occupied by the Commonwealth, nor to the Suffolk County court house, jail, or house of correction, nor to railroad stations, nor to portable or permanent school buildings erected and maintained by the school-house department except as provided in section seventeen of this act and amendments thereof or additions thereto nor to voting booths erected and maintained by the board of election commissioners; and also provided that permits from the building commissioner for the erection of school buildings shall be required and that such buildings shall be subject to the inspection of the building department.

[1915, c. 352, sect. 2, Special Act.] [1921, c. 60, sect. 1.]

Par. 2. - ■ Except as otherwise provided by law, the provisions of this act shall not be held to deprive the board of health, the police commissioner, the board of street commissioners, the board of park commissioners, the board of examiners of gas fitters, the commissioner of wires, or the fire commissioner of the city of Boston of any power or authority which they have at the date of the passage of this act, or of the remedies for the enforcement of the orders of said boards or officers; unless such powers, authorities, or remedies are inconsistent with the provisions of this act; nor to repeal any existing law, not herein expressly repealed, except so far as it may be inconsistent with the provisions of this act.