[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Millville
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted 5-13-2013 ATM
by Art. 18]
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Editor's Note: Former §§ 85-6, Motor or horse-drawn vehicles, 85-7, Vehicle operation, 85-9, Traffic rules, and 85-13, Impeding traffic, of this article were repealed 11-4-2019 STM by Art. 10. See now Ch. 90, Vehicles and Traffic. Said Art. 10 also renumbered former § 85-8 as § 85-6; former §§ 85-10 through 85-12 as §§ 85-7 through 85-9; and former §§ 85-14 and 85-15 as §§ 85-10 and 85-11, respectively.
Prior to opening any public street in the Town of Millville,
the contractor or person proposing to open the public street shall
secure from the Highway Surveyor a road opening permit and shall post
with the Treasurer/Collector a bond in the amount required by the
Highway Surveyor.
No person shall coast upon any sled or sleds upon any sidewalk
or upon any street or public place except upon those streets or public
places as the Selectmen may by public notice designate for such purpose.
[Amended 11-4-2019 STM by Art. 10]
No person shall drive any animal or vehicle under his care,
control, or custody on or over any sidewalk, except at a permanent
or temporary driveway, or permit any animal or vehicle under his care
to obstruct the safe and convenient passage of persons lawfully using
said sidewalks; or drive any animal or vehicle over any sidewalk in
such a manner as to damage the concrete, cement or other material
of said sidewalk.
All awnings, signs, or other projections of buildings shall
be at least seven feet above the sidewalk or traveled way, and then
only by permission of the Board of Selectmen.
All abutters of granolithic and concrete sidewalks within the
limits of the Town shall remove snow from such granolithic or concrete
sidewalks within 24 hours after the termination of each snowstorm.
The Highway Surveyor is hereby authorized and required to place
and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained, on each and every
street intersecting a through way, appropriate signs upon the street
and appropriate devices or marks in the roadbed, such signs, devices
or markers to bear the word "Stop" at or near the property line of
a through way, and to be located in such a position and to be provided
with letters of a size to be clearly legible from a distance of 100
feet along the street intersecting a through way. All such signs shall
either be illuminated at night or so placed as to be illuminated by
streetlights or by the headlights of approaching motor vehicles.
No person shall throw stones in any street or public way or
on any sidewalk in the Town.
The Town Common shall be closed to all persons from 10:00 p.m.
to 6:00 a.m. The Police Department shall enforce this bylaw.
No person, owner of property, or person controlling property
shall discharge or permit to be discharged into or upon any street,
court, lane, public roadway, or roadway which the public has the right
to use any water which creates a public hazard by freezing or flooding
in the roadway. In addition, said person, owner of property, or person
controlling property must hold and conform to a laid driveway entrance
permit issued by the Highway Surveyor. Whoever violates this section
shall be punished by a fine of $250 for each day the public hazard
exists.
No Town way, street, or sidewalk shall be used by a person for
a parade, toll day, meeting, or other procession or event unless (1)
a written application shall first be filed with the Board of Selectmen
specifying the time and proposed route or location; and (2) the Board
of Selectmen shall have issued a permit approving same. A permit shall
be approved unless the parade, toll day, meeting, or other procession
or event would conflict with another event already permitted, or the
parade would so interfere with vehicular traffic as to present a safety
hazard. In the latter event, the Board of Selectmen or its designee
shall designate and permit an alternative parade route which shall
adequately achieve the purposes of the paraders. The Board of Selectmen
is authorized to promulgate rules and regulations consistent with
this section relative to the time, place, and manner of such events,
as necessary in the interest of public safety.
