[HISTORY: Adopted by the Mayor and Council
of the Town of Manchester 8-20-1958 (Ch. 75 of the 1979 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
It shall be unlawful for any person to willfully
obstruct or hinder the free passage of persons passing along or by
any public street, sidewalk or highway within the corporate limits
of the Town of Manchester, or to willfully disturb any neighborhood
within the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester by loud and
unseemly noises, or to profanely curse and swear or use obscene language
upon or near any such street, alley, sidewalk or highway within the
hearing of persons passing by, upon or along such street, alley, sidewalk
or highway, or to obstruct or hinder the free passage of persons upon
any public street, alley, sidewalk or highway within the Town of Manchester
by catching hold of and soliciting a person or persons against the
will of such person or persons. It shall be unlawful for any person
to be drunk or act in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the
public peace, or to willfully act in a disorderly manner by making
loud and unseemly noises or by profanely cursing, swearing or using
obscene language or by indecently exposing his or her person within
public buildings or upon the public streets, alleys, sidewalks, highways
or private and public parking lots within the corporate limits of
the Town of Manchester.
[Amended 8-12-1975]
A.
It shall be unlawful for any person to be drunk or
act in a disorderly manner to the disturbance of the public peace
upon any street, alley, sidewalk, highway, parking lot, private or
public property or any place of public worship or public resort or
amusement or place of business within the corporate limits of the
Town of Manchester.
B.
It shall further be unlawful for any person to consume
beer, wine, whiskey or any other alcoholic beverages on the public
streets, sidewalks, alleys, highways, schoolyards or parks within
the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester.
It shall be unlawful for any person to enter
uninvited upon the lands or premises of any person, firm or corporation,
whether such person is the owner or lessee of said land or premises,
and to willfully act in a disorderly manner by making loud and unseemly
noises or by profanely cursing or swearing or using vulgar or obscene
language or by being under the influence of intoxicating liquors or
narcotics while thereon.
It shall be unlawful for any person to indecently,
improperly or offensively use the streets, highways, sidewalks, alleys
or parking lots within the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester
as toilet facilities.
It shall be unlawful for any person to keep
a disorderly house within the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester.[1]
It shall be unlawful for any person to loiter
upon the streets, alleys, sidewalks and near public places within
the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester. It shall be unlawful
for any able-bodied adult person who is without any regular employment
and who is without any visible means of support to loiter in or about
public places within the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester.
[Amended 6-12-2007 by Ord. No. 178]
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to explode or discharge any fireworks, bombs, torpedoes or similar
devices deemed illegal by the State of Maryland within the corporate
limits of the Town of Manchester unless such activities are conducted
in accordance with the conditions of a permit validly and properly
issued by the Maryland State Fire Marshal.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to purposely tear down or in any manner deface any sign, signs or
posters which have been posted by authority of the Mayor and Council
of Manchester.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to willfully break any streetlights within the corporate limits of
the Town of Manchester, or to cut or break any streetlight posts,
parking signs, traffic signs or traffic signal device in said Town.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to take and carry away or willfully break, injure or destroy any box
or other receptacle maintained upon any street or alley in the Town
of Manchester for the reception of paper, filth or waste matter.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to, at any time or in any manner, deface or injure or remove any tree,
fence, gate railing, porch, building or other structure upon public
land or property of another, by writing, cutting or in any other manner,
within the corporate limits of the Town of Manchester.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to purposely injure or deface, by cutting, breaking or otherwise,
any tree or trees now planted or hereafter to be planted along the
sidewalks or within the public rights-of-way within the corporate
limits of the Town of Manchester and on the lands of said Town outside
the corporate limits of Manchester.
It shall be unlawful for any person or persons
to ride, drive, wheel, push or in any manner propel or permit to remain
on the sidewalks of the Town of Manchester any wheelbarrow, handcart,
bicycle or any other such article, or any sled or sleigh, in such
a manner as to impede pedestrian traffic.
[Amended 9-10-1963; 4-2-1979 by Ord. No. 11; 8-9-1988 by Ord. No.
54]
[Added 7-19-1993 by Ord. No. 85; amended 5-28-2001 by Ord. No.
133; 5-11-2004 by Ord. No. 156; 10-12-2021 by Ord. No. 249]
A charge shall be made for all new residential units in the amount of $1,500 per single-family home and $1,500 for each equivalent dwelling unit as defined in § 241-10D. Such charge is to be payable prior to the issuance of a building permit in accordance with current practices. A portion of such fees thus collected, in an amount to be determined annually by the Mayor and Council, shall be disbursed to the Manchester Volunteer Fire Engine Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 or any successor entity on a quarterly basis or at such other interval as may be determined by the Mayor of the Town of Manchester in order to defray the additional costs and expenses incurred by virtue of continued growth within the Town of Manchester. The remaining amounts collected under this section shall be placed in a capital expansion account for use in making capital improvements in the safety services to assure a consistent level of services are available to new home residents.
