No person shall erect, set up or maintain any
fence, portico, platform or doorstep extending into, or over any sidewalk
or other part of any public way.
No person shall establish or maintain over any
sidewalk, or other part of any public way, or affix to any tree, tree
guard, post, board or other object thereon, any sign, sign board or
advertising device unless he shall have first obtained a permit therefor
from the Selectmen; and any such permit may be revoked by the Selectmen
at any time.
No person shall establish or maintain any shade
or awning over any part of a sidewalk, or other part of any public
way, unless the same be secured and safely supported, and unless the
lowest part thereof is not less than seven feet above the surface
of the sidewalk or way, nor in any event without obtaining a permit
therefor from the Selectmen.
No person other than a public officer or Town
agent, servant or employee in the performance of his duties shall
place any obstruction to travel on any sidewalk or public way without
the consent of the Selectmen; provided, however, that his section
shall not be construed to prohibit reasonable emergency action to
warn travelers of any obviously dangerous condition observed in the
public way, provided the condition and action taken are reported by
the person acting as soon as reasonably may be to the Selectmen, the
Police, or the Highway Superintendent. No person shall leave any rubbish
refuse, or any noxious, dangerous, offensive or unsightly object or
matter on or in any public way, park, beach or common lands of the
Town.
Every person operating or having charge of a
vehicle in any public way shall operate it in all respects as may
be directed by any police officer.
No person having under his care or control any
vehicle shall permit the same or the animal or animals attached thereto,
if any, to stand on or across any public way in such a manner as to
obstruct the same for an unnecessary length of time. No person shall
stop with any vehicle in any public way so near another vehicle as
to obstruct public travel or upon or across any foot crossing or so
as to obstruct any private way or private driveway.
No person who owns or has charge of any horse,
grazing beast or swine shall suffer or permit such animals to run
at large or to be so tethered that it can, with the limits of its
tether, go upon the travelled part of any street or upon any public
way.
No person shall throw stones, snowballs or other
missiles, or shoot with or use any gun, bean blower, bow and arrow,
sling shot, or other similar device in, on or across any public way,
park, beach or common lands of the Town. No person shall play at any
game in which a ball is used, on the travelled part of any street
or on any sidewalk.
No person, except the Superintendent of Streets
or the Highway Surveyor, and those acting under his orders in the
lawful performance of their duties, shall break up or dig up the ground
or stones in any sidewalk or other part of any public way or place
thereon any staging or other temporary structure or move any building
in or along the same without a written permit from the Board of Selectmen.
Any permit issued therefor shall be in force for such time only as
the board may specify and shall be subject to such conditions as they
may prescribe, and in every case shall be upon the condition that
during the whole of every night from twilight of the evening to sunrise
in the morning lighted lanterns and proper barriers shall be so placed
as to secure travellers from danger; and upon further condition that
the permittee shall indemnify the Town against claims of all persons
who may be injured in their persons or property by reason of the exercise
of the privileges conferred by the permit.
A person having a permit under §
342-9 of this Article shall restore the public way to its original condition or to a condition satisfactory to the Board of Selectmen. The Selectmen shall have the right to revoke such permit at any time and may require a bond, either before the work is commenced or during its progress, to assure the proper performance of the work, the restoration required herein, and/or the indemnification provided for in §
342-9 of this Article.
No person shall knowingly suffer or permit any
water or other liquid to run or be discharged from any building owned
by him or under his control, onto or across any curbed or finished
sidewalk. Provided, however, that this section shall not be deemed
to prohibit washing windows or other parts of any buildings on private
property if the work is done at a time when, and in such manner that
no unsafe condition results therefrom.
No person shall affix, post, write, paint, print
or otherwise inscribe any notice, advertisement, word, figure or pictures
on any sidewalk or part of any public way, or on any fence, wall,
post, stone, tree, building, or structure adjoining any public way
without the consent of the owner thereof. Provided that this section
shall not be deemed to prohibit the Police Department or State Highway
Department in the painting on and placing of traffic instructions
and signals.
No person, except physicians responding to emergency
calls or drivers of ambulances, patrol wagons, fire apparatus responding
to an alarm or vehicles transporting the United States Mail, shall
ride a horse or drive a vehicle through a funeral procession.
No person shall injure, deface or destroy any
street sign, guide board, lamp post or lantern thereon, nor any tree,
buildings, fence or post or other thing set, erected or made for the
use or ornament of the Town.
No person who owns or controls any building
to which access is had through any opening or entrance in any sidewalk
or other part of any public way shall suffer or permit a platform
or grate or other covering thereof to rise above the adjacent surface
of the sidewalk or street. Each such entrance or opening shall at
all times when not in use be covered by a suitable grating or other
covering, and whenever it is in use it shall be suitably guarded.
The construction of each such covering and the method of guarding
when in use shall be subject at all times to the approval of the Selectmen.
No owner or person in control of any building
which has a roof slanting towards the sidewalk, shall permit the building
to be without a barrier, snow guard or other device to prevent snow
or ice falling from such roof to the sidewalk.
[Amended 5-5-2008 ATM, Art. 37]
Owners or persons in control of property abutting
on Union Street, between North Avenue and Union Square, shall keep
the sidewalk in front of their premises clear of snow and ice; said
work of cleaning the walk to be completed at least 24 hours after
a storm in a manner satisfactory to the Highway Surveyor or Superintendent
of the Streets. Each violation of this section shall be punishable
by the fine set forth in MGL c. 85, § 5.
No person shall drive or ride a horse or drive
an automobile along any sidewalk.
No person shall permit any part of a tree, hedge,
bush or shrubbery, growing on his land, to extend over or overhang
any street, sidewalk or highway so as to interfere with the free use
of such street, sidewalk or highway.
[Added 5-19-1997 ATM, Art. 66]
No person shall excavate, remove material or
open any Town-owned property without first obtaining a Road and Sidewalk
Opening Permit from the Board of Selectmen.
[Added 5-19-1997 ATM, Art. 66]
No person shall place or cause to be placed,
any vehicle on the public ways in the Town of Rockland which shall
interfere with the removing or plowing of snow or the removal of ice.
The Highway Superintendent and the Chief of Police and those acting
under the orders of either in the lawful performance of their duties
for the purpose of removing snow or ice from any way may remove or
cause to be removed to some convenient place including in such term
a public garage, any vehicle shall thereupon be liable for the cost
of such removal and the storage charged, if any, resulting therefrom.
[Added 5-19-1997 ATM, Art. 66]
No person shall plow, shovel, discharge or block
a sidewalk, street or public way, place or cause to be placed, snow
or ice which could cause an unsafe condition.
[Added 5-19-1997 ATM, Art. 66; amended 5-5-2008 ATM, Art. 37]
Except as otherwise provided in any section
of this article, any person violating any of the provisions of this
article shall forfeit not more than $100 for each offense.