DAY-CARE CENTER
Means an establishment, whether public or private, which
provides care for children and is registered with and licensed pursuant
to the laws of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts by the Office of
Child Care Services.
ELDERLY HOUSING FACILITY
Means a building or buildings on the same lot containing
four or more dwelling units restricted to occupancy by households
having one or more members 55 years of age or older.
ESTABLISHING A RESIDENCE
Means to set up or bring into being a dwelling place or an
abode where a person sleeps, which may include more than one location,
and may be mobile or transitory, or by means of purchasing real property
or entering into a lease or rental agreement for real property (including
a renewal or extension of a prior agreement whether through written
execution or automatic renewal).
LOITER
Means remaining in or around park property for more than
15 minutes.
PARK
Means land owned or controlled by a unit of local government,
and located within the Town of Townsend, that is designated by the
unit of local government for use solely or primarily for children's
recreation, including recreation areas but not limited to jogging
trails, hiking trails, water parks, swimming pools, soccer fields,
baseball fields, football fields, or any other field or improved area
under the jurisdiction of a unit of local government.
PERMANENT RESIDENCE
Means a place where a person lives, abides, lodges, or resides
for five or more consecutive days or 14 or more days in the aggregate
during any calendar year.
PLACE OF WORSHIP
Means a structure used for religious worship or religious
education purposes on land owned by, or held in trust for the use
of, any religious organization.
SCHOOL
Any public or private educational facility that provides
services to children in grades kindergarten - 12.
SEX OFFENDER
As defined in MGL c. 6, § 178C, means a person
who resides, works or attends an institution of higher learning in
the commonwealth and who has been convicted of a sex offense or who
has been adjudicated as a youthful offender or as a delinquent juvenile
by reason of a sex offense or a person released from incarceration
or parole or probation supervision or custody with the Department
of Youth Services for such a conviction or adjudication or a person
who has been adjudicated a sexually dangerous person under MGL c.
123A, § 14, as in force at the time of adjudication, or
a person released from civil commitment pursuant to Section 9 of said
Chapter 123A, whichever last occurs, on or after August 1, 1981.
SEX OFFENDER REGISTRY
Means the collected information and data that is received
by the Criminal History Systems Board pursuant to MGL c. 6, §§ 178C
to 178P, inclusive, as such information and data is modified or amended
by the sex offender registry board or a court of competent jurisdiction
pursuant to said Sections 178C to 178P, inclusive.
SEX OFFENSE INVOLVING A CHILD
Means an indecent assault and battery on a child under 14
under Section 13B of Chapter 265; rape of a child under 16 with force
under Section 22A of said Chapter 265; rape and abuse of a child under
Section 23 of said Chapter 265; assault of a child with intent to
commit rape under Section 24B of said Chapter 265; kidnapping of a
child under the age of 16 under Section 26 of said Chapter 265; enticing
a child under the age of 16 for purposes of committing a crime under
Section 26C of said Chapter 265; inducing a minor into prostitution
under Section 4A of Chapter 272; living off or sharing earnings of
a minor prostitute under Section 4B of said Chapter 272; posing or
exhibiting a child in the state of nudity under Section 29A of said
Chapter 272; dissemination of visual material of a child in a state
of nudity or sexual conduct under Section 29B of said Chapter 272;
unnatural and lascivious acts with a child under 16 under Section
35A of said Chapter 272; aggravated rape under Section 39 of Chapter
277; and any attempt to commit a violation of any of the aforementioned
sections pursuant to Section 6 of Chapter 274 or a like violation
of the laws of another state, the United States military, territorial
or Indian tribal authority.
TEMPORARY RESIDENCE
Means a place where a person lives, abides, lodges, or resides
for a period of less than five consecutive days or 14 days in the
aggregate during any calendar year, which is not the person's
permanent address or place where the person routinely lives, abides,
lodges, or resides and which is not the person's permanent residence.
TOWN LIBRARY
Means the structure in which the Townsend Public Library
is located.