[Adopted 3-2-1914 ATM by Art. 36 as §§ 9, 12, 17, 19, 20,
25, 26, 28, 29, 30 and 32 of the 1914 General Bylaws]
No person shall ride, drive, propel or wheel any handcart, sled,
bicycle, motor vehicle, or other carriage, except children's
carriages and invalids' chairs drawn by hand, or allow any horse,
ox, mule, cow, goat, donkey or pig, cart, carriage or motor vehicle
to be on any sidewalk unless in the necessary act of crossing the
same.
[Amended 11-18-2010 STM by Art. 3]
No person shall remove any turf or earth from any street, highway,
or Town way or from any lands owned by the Town, except if it is to
repair the roads or sidewalks of said Town, and then only under the
direction of the Select Board or Highway Superintendent.
No person shall drive any wagon, carriage, cart or motor vehicle
upon any common or grass land in the said Town that is used by the
abutters as mowing or as a lawn.
No person shall post or affix or cause to be posted or affixed
upon any tree, stone, telegraph, telephone, electric light, or other
pole, post or structure, within the boundaries of any street, lane,
common or other public place, any sign, playbill, poster, notice,
advertisement, or printed paper of any description whatsoever, except
caucus or election notices, or any advertising appliance or medium,
or cut, paint, or mark any such stone, tree, pole, post or structure
except for the purpose of protecting the same.
[Amended 11-18-2010 STM by Art. 3]
No owner or tenant of an estate abutting on a stone, brick,
concrete or plank sidewalk shall place or suffer to remain, for more
than 12 hours between sunrise and sunset, any snow upon such sidewalk,
nor any ice upon such sidewalk, unless such ice is made even and covered
with sand to prevent slipping, nor shall any person place ice or snow
in a street outside the sidewalk.
[Amended 2-1-1943 ATM by Art. 19]
No person shall drag or haul tools or equipment, machinery or
other property upon the surface of a concrete, tar, macadam, or other
hard-surfaced highway within the control of the Town without providing
reasonable and adequate means to protect the said highway from damage.
No person shall expose in any street any table or device of
any kind intended for playing a game of hazard or chance, and no person
shall play at any such game or any other unlawful game in any street.
A.
The Select
Board may grant license in writing for such obstructions of any part
of the highway or streets or such excavations of the same as may be
needful for the purpose of erecting, repairing, altering or removing
any building, or for any purpose which to it may seem reasonable.
B.
In all
such cases in which a license may be given for obstructing or excavating
any highway or street, the authority granting the same may impose
such considerations and limitations as it shall see fit with regard
to erecting barricades, maintaining lights and taking other precautions
for the security of travelers and other person. Such license shall
also express the time for which it will continue in force.
C.
Every person
receiving such license shall execute a written agreement to indemnify
and save harmless the Town against all damage or cost by reason of
any claim for damages or any process, civil or criminal, on account
of the existence of such obstructions or excavations or any injury
to any person occasioned thereby, and the authority granting the license
may in its discretion require securities for the performance of such
agreement.
[Amended 11-18-2010 STM by Art. 3]
Any person violating any of the provisions of § 218-5 of these bylaws shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding $10 for each offense.
