Town of Orleans, MA
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2023-05-08
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Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 90 Emergency Access
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 1: Town Meeting Enactments
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 4 Betterment Assessments
- Ch 5 Septic Betterment
- Ch 6 Sewer Assessment
- Ch 8 Commission on Disabilities
- Ch 17 (Reserved)
- Ch 20 Finances
- Ch 21 Fire Lanes
- Ch 23 Gas Inspector
- Ch 33 Official Town Plan
- Ch 35 Open Space Committee
- Ch 38 Park Commissioners
- Ch 40 Personnel
- Ch 52 Traffic and Parking Study Committee
- Ch 52A Naming/Dedication of Town Property
- Ch 53 Historical Commission
- Ch 57 Waterways Improvement and Shellfish Advisory Committee
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 62 Alarm Systems
- Ch 63 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 64 (Reserved)
- Ch 65 Amusements
- Ch 69 (Reserved)
- Ch 78 Cigarette Vending Machines
- Ch 81 Community Preservation Committee
- Ch 82 Departmental Revolving Funds
- Ch 85 Animal Control
- Ch 87 Driveway Curb Cuts and Road Opening
- Ch 88 Drainage and Erosion and Sediment Control
- Ch 89 Parking
- Ch 90 Emergency Access
- § 90-1 Purpose.
- § 90-2 Minimum clearance standards for all ways.
- § 90-3 Failure to maintain minimum clearance standards.
- Ch 94 Fees
- Ch 95 Single-Use Plastic Bags
- Ch 95A Ambulance and Emergency Services
- Ch 96 Polystyrene Reduction
- Ch 97 Prohibition on Sale and Use of Balloons
- Ch 100 Handicapped Parking
- Ch 102 Herbicides
- Ch 103 Fertilizer Nitrogen and Phosphorus Control
- Ch 104 Affordable Housing Trust
- Ch 106 Demolition of Historical Structure
- Ch 120 Noise
- Ch 122 Outdoor Lighting
- Ch 124 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 125 Littering
- Ch 126 Public Consumption of Marijuana
- Ch 127 Public Trees
- Ch 129 Plastic Container Prohibition
- Ch 130 Recycling
- Ch 131 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 132 Registration of Rental Properties
- Ch 137 Sales
- Ch 138 Secondhand Dealers and Secondhand Collectors
- Ch 139 Scenic Roads
- Ch 140 Right to Farm and Fish
- Ch 142 Shellfish
- Ch 144 (Reserved)
- Ch 145 Street Numbering
- Ch 147 Swimming Pool Fencing
- Ch 148 Illicit Discharges
- Ch 158 Water
- Ch 159 Waterways
- Ch 160 Wetlands
- Ch 164 Zoning
- Division 2: Selectmen's Regulations
- Ch 168 (Reserved)
- Ch 170 Betterment Procedures
- Ch 171 False Alarms
- Ch 172 Fees
- Ch 173 Hawker and Peddler License Rules and Regulations
- Ch 174 Public Ways Over Private Property
- Ch 175 Town of Orleans Rules and Regulations of the Liquor Licensing Authority
- Ch 176 Shellfish
- Ch 178 Town-Owned Buildings, Use of
- Ch 179 Traffic Regulations
- Ch 181 (Reserved)
- Division 3: Miscellaneous Regulations
- Ch 185 Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 187 (Reserved)
- Ch 188 Housing Authority
- Ch 190 (Reserved)
- Ch 191 Planning Board Rules and Regulations
- Ch 192 Subdivision Rules and Regulations
- Ch 194 Town Meetings
- Ch 196 Water Department Rules and Regulations
- Ch 196A Wetlands Regulations
- Ch 197 Zoning Board of Appeals Rules and Practices
- Appendix
- Ch A198 General Laws and Special Acts
- Ch A199 Cape Cod Regional Technical High School Agreement
- Ch A200 Intermunicipal Agreement Between the Towns of Orleans, Brewster and Eastham for the Construction, Management and Operation of a Septage Treatment Facility
- Ch A201 Nauset Regional School District Agreement
- Ch A202 Old KING’S Highway Regional Historic District Commission Bulletin
- Ch A203 Policy Statements
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted 5-10-1993 Annual Town Meeting, Art. 26. Amendments noted where applicable.]
To provide for the protection of the general public by insuring
safe and adequate access over all ways within the town for oversized
emergency vehicles for the purpose of providing emergency medical,
law enforcement and/or fire protection services.
The traveled portion of all public and private ways in existence
at the time of the adoption of this bylaw shall be kept cleared from
all brush and/or overhanging tree branches to provide minimum unobstructed
clearance of ten (10) feet wide and fourteen (14) feet high. Any public
or private way laid out subsequent to the adoption of this bylaw shall
be kept cleared from all brush and/or overhanging trees to provide
minimum unobstructed clearance of fourteen (14) feet wide and fourteen
(14) feet high.
In the event that clearance of a private way is not maintained in accordance with the minimum standards of § 90-2 after thirty (30) days' written notice to the abutters of said private way, the Director of Highways, upon written request by the Chief of the Fire or Police Department, shall have the authority to enter upon said way to perform the minimum trimming necessary to bring said way into compliance with the minimum clearance standards of § 90-2. All reasonable costs of any such town trimming shall be the responsibility of the abutters of said way.
