Town of Orleans, MA
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2023-05-08
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Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 158 Water
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Article I General Regulations
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Betterment Assessments
- Ch 5 Septic Betterment
- Ch 6 Sewer Assessment
- Ch 8 Commission on Disabilities
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 Finances
- Ch 21 Fire Lanes
- Ch 23 Gas Inspector
- Ch 33 Official Town Plan
- Ch 35 Open Space Committee
- Ch 38 Park Commissioners
- Ch 40 Personnel
- Ch 52 Traffic and Parking Study Committee
- Ch 52A Naming/Dedication of Town Property
- Ch 53 Historical Commission
- Ch 57 Waterways Improvement and Shellfish Advisory Committee
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Alarm Systems
- Ch 63 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 65 Amusements
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 78 Cigarette Vending Machines
- Ch 81 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 82 Departmental Revolving Funds
- Ch 85 Animal Control
- Ch 87 Driveway Curb Cuts and Road Opening
- Ch 88 Drainage and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 89 Parking
- Ch 90 Emergency Access
- Ch 94 Fees
- Ch 95 Single-Use Plastic Bags
- Ch 95A Ambulance and Emergency Services
- Ch 96 Polystyrene Reduction
- Ch 97 Prohibition on Sale and Use of Balloons
- Ch 100 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 102 Herbicides
- Ch 103 Fertilizer Nitrogen and Phosphorus Control
- Ch 104 Affordable Housing Trust
- Ch 106 Demolition of Historical Structure
- Ch 120 Noise
- Ch 122 Outdoor Lighting
- Ch 124 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 125 Littering
- Ch 126 Public Consumption of Marijuana
- Ch 127 Public Trees
- Ch 129 Plastic Container Prohibition
- Ch 130 Recycling
- Ch 131 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 132 Registration of Rental Properties
- Ch 137 Sales
- Ch 138 Secondhand Dealers and Secondhand Collectors
- Ch 139 Scenic Roads
- Ch 140 Right to Farm and Fish
- Ch 142 Shellfish
- Ch 144 (Reserved)
- Ch 145 Street Numbering
- Ch 147 Swimming Pool Fencing
- Ch 148 Illicit Discharges
- Ch 158 Water
- Ch 158 Art I General Regulations
- § 158-1 Guaranty or bond required for extension of mains.
- § 158-2 Protection of watershed; fines and penalties.
- Ch 159 Waterways
- Ch 160 Wetlands
- Ch 164 Zoning
- Division 2: Selectmen's Regulations
- Ch 168 (Reserved)
- Ch 170 Betterment Procedures
- Ch 171 False Alarms
- Ch 172 Fees
- Ch 173 Hawker and Peddler License Rules and Regulations
- Ch 174 Public Ways Over Private Property
- Ch 175 Town of Orleans Rules and Regulations of the Liquor Licensing Authority
- Ch 176 Shellfish
- Ch 178 Town-Owned Buildings, Use of
- Ch 179 Traffic Regulations
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Division 3: Miscellaneous Regulations
- Ch 185 Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 187 (Reserved)
- Ch 188 Housing Authority
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 191 Planning Board Rules and Regulations
- Ch 192 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Ch 194 Town Meetings
- Ch 196 Water Department Rules and Regulations
- Ch 196A Wetlands Regulations
- Ch 197 Zoning Board of Appeals Rules and Practices
- Appendix
- Ch A198 General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A199 Cape Cod Regional Technical High School Agreement
- Ch A200 Intermunicipal Agreement Between the Towns of Orleans, Brewster and Eastham for the Construction, Management and Operation of a Septage Treatment Facility
- Ch A201 Nauset Regional School District Agreement
- Ch A202 Old KING’S Highway Regional Historic District Commission Bulletin
- Ch A203 Policy Statements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[Adopted 3-11-1963 ATM, Art. 41; amended in its entirety 3-9-1970 ATM, Art. 33]
[Amended 5-11-2009 ATM, Art. 32; 5-13-2013 ATM, Art. 31]
Whenever any extension of the water main is requested upon any
street or way, the Board of Water and Sewer Commissioners (hereinafter
the "Board") may require that, before such extension is made, a guaranty
or bond shall be given to the Town in such amount and form and with
such sureties as they shall approve, conditioned that the obligors
shall pay to the Town for not more than ten (10) years, at the time
appointed for payment of water rates, such sums as shall amount in
the aggregate annually to ten percent (10%) upon the cost of such
extension, subject to diminution by the amounts that the Town shall
receive annually from rates paid for water by consumers connected
with such extension.
[Added 5-9-1989 ATM, Art. 30; amended 5-11-2009 ATM, Art. 32]
Any person who, without lawful authority, directly or indirectly corrupts or defiles or who causes the corruption or defilement of the watershed system or any water source located within the Town of Orleans supplying the watershed system including but not limiting to dumping of any type of materials within the watershed of said Town as depicted on Assessors Map 54, Parcel 1: 490+/- acres, Assessors Map 68, Parcel 5: 3.91 acres, Assessors Map 68, Parcel 7: 6.91 acres, Assessors Map 81, Parcel 10: 13.67 acres, Assessors Map 81, Parcel 9: 3.33 acres, Assessors Map 81, Parcel 5: 11.48 acres, Assessors Map 75, Parcel 119: 4.00 acres, Assessors Map 75, Parcel 87: 6.53 acres filed in the Orleans Tax Assessor’s Office, shall be subject to the following fines and penalties. A violation of this bylaw shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred and 00/100 ($300.00) dollars for each day such violation occurs or continues. Any such fine or penalty shall be payable to the Treasury of the Town of Orleans. The fines and penalties imposed under this bylaw are in addition to the fines and penalties imposed under Massachusetts General Laws, Chapter 21, Section 42, and said statutes shall not be construed as a limitation of the enforcement or the extent of violations covered under this bylaw. The bylaw shall not be deemed the exclusive remedy available to the Town of Orleans for the corruption or defilement of the Town’s watershed. The Town specifically reserves the right to maintain an action under theories of tort law or any other appropriate legal theory.
