[Adopted May 1993 STM]
No person, except officers of the town in the
lawful performance of their duties and those acting under their orders,
shall obstruct any sidewalk or street or any part thereof or break
or dig the ground of the same without first obtaining a written license
therefor from the Selectmen or other officers designated by law as
having charge of the ways.
A.
No person shall throw, place or cause to be thrown
or placed upon any street or sidewalk in the town any dirt, ashes
or stones, hoops, boards or other wood with nails projecting therefrom,
shavings, sawdust, manure, nails, spikes, screws, glass, tin cans,
filth, rubbish or any noxious or refuse liquid or solid matter or
substance. A person may place ashes on the sidewalk in the winter
to protect against ice.
B.
No person shall throw or place upon any sidewalk or
street crossing any banana skin, orange skin or other slippery substance.
No person shall tie a horse or other animal
to any tree, nor to any structure protecting such tree, in the public
streets of the town.
A.
No person shall distribute or display posters, handbills,
placards, pamphlets or other advertising matter in any public street
or way without first obtaining a permit therefor from the Select Board,
excepting that such handbill, circular, program or advertising slip
may be placed within doors of stores, offices and business houses
and at the doors of residences.
[Amended 11-20-2019 STM, Art. 13]
B.
No person shall place or cause or allow to be placed
posters, handbills, placards, signs or other advertising matter of
any nature in or upon any street, sidewalk or footwalk in the town,
except on the public billboard.
No person shall coast upon or across any sidewalk
or street in the town except at such times and in such places as may
from time to time be designated by the Selectmen or other officer
designated by law as having charge of the ways.
No person, except an officer of the law in performance
of his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another with the intent
of peeping into the window of the house or spying upon in any manner
any person or persons therein. Anyone found violating this section
may be arrested without a warrant.
No person shall allow any gate or door on the
premises under his control and adjoining any public way to swing on
or over into said public way.
No person in clearing his own property shall
throw, plow or otherwise cause snow or ice to be placed on any street
or way. Any person found violating this section shall be liable to
pay to the town a fine of fifty dollars ($50.) for each such occurrence.
No person shall place or cause to be placed
upon any sidewalk any coal, bale, box or trunk, crate, cask, barrel,
garbage can, packaging or anything so as to obstruct the same for
more than one (1) hour or for more than ten (10) minutes after being
notified by a Constable, police officer or selectmen to move it.
A.
Every person intending to erect, repair or take down
any building on land abutting on any street or way which the town
is required to keep in repair and who desires to make use of any portion
of said street or way for the purpose of placing building materials
or rubbish shall give notice thereof to the Selectmen or other officer
designated by law as having charge of the ways. The Selectmen or said
officer may grant a permit to occupy a portion of said street or way,
and such permit shall be on the condition that the licensee shall
keep a sufficient number of lighted lanterns at or near the parts
of the street or way obstructed or unsafe and shall keep a railing
or guard around the same while such obstruction shall continue. If
such construction is more than a temporary condition, the licensee
shall place a good temporary walk around said obstruction and at the
completion of the work shall restore the street or way to its former
condition.
B.
Before issuing a license as specified in the preceding
subsection, a person applying for the same shall execute a written
agreement to indemnify and save harmless the town against and from
all damages by reason of the cost or expense it may suffer or be put
to by reason of any claim for damage or by reason of any proceeding,
criminal or civil, on account of the existence of such obstruction
or excavation.
Water main extensions on private ways and through
private property shall be made only on the basis of an agreement by
the petitioner or petitioners for such extensions to pay back to the
town each year after completion of said extensions five percent (5%)
of the cost of such extensions for a period of twenty (20) years.
A.
The Superintendent of Streets or other officer having
charge of ways of the town shall have authority for the purposes of
removing or plowing snow or removing ice from any way in the town
to remove or cause to be removed to some convenient place, including
in such terms a public garage, any vehicle interfering with such work.
B.
The owner of any such vehicle so removed shall be
liable for the reasonable cost of such removal and storage, and delivery
of the vehicle to said owner may be withheld by the Superintendent
of Streets or other officer having charge of the ways in the town
until such reasonable costs shall be paid.
C.
Whenever any vehicle is so removed the Police Department
of the town shall be notified, and said department shall render all
necessary assistance to the Superintendent of Streets or other officer
having charge of ways in enforcing this chapter.
All residents, tenants, homeowners, business
establishments and private plowing contractors not employed by the
town are prohibited from placing snow within the public way in any
manner which will cause any public inconvenience or create a hazard.
