Any person being the owner, tenant, sharecropper
or occupant of any land abutting upon any town way, county road or
other public highway, except only a state highway in the Town of Sunderland,
which has been improved by the application thereto of gravel, tar,
oil, asphalt, Tarvia, bitumen or similar substances or combinations
or preparations therefor, who shall so plow, harrow, cultivate or
in any other way or otherwise so farm, work or use said abutting land
by himself, his agent or servant or under his direction or in the
course of said husbandry or otherwise shall so use such adjoining
improved way, road or highway as thereby to cause to be deposited
or to accumulate upon the improved surface of such way, road or highway
gravel, sand, sod, earth, manure, compost, debris, detritus or wash
of any kind, or who shall plow, harrow or cultivate into any such
mentioned way so as to disturb or injure the shoulders or surface
of said roadway, shall incur for violation of this article a penalty
by fine not exceeding twenty dollars ($20.) for each offense, to be
recovered upon complaint before the District Court of Franklin; and,
upon any such violation or neglect, the Superintendent of Roads and
Streets of the Town of Sunderland may cause such deposit or accumulation
to be removed from the road surface or repairs to be made to any damaged
portion of the roadway at the expense of the person liable therefor,
and such expense, to an amount not exceeding the penalty, may be recovered
in an action of contract by the Town of Sunderland.