[Adopted as Ch. 13, Sec. 39, of the 1996 By-laws; amended 11-18-2013 STM by Art. 16]
The following definitions shall apply in the interpretation
and enforcement of this section:
Any person, firm, partnership, association, corporation,
company or organization of any kind.
Any real property within the Town which is not a street or
highway.
The entire width between the boundary lines of every way
publicly maintained when any part thereof is open to the use of the
public for purposes of vehicular travel.
A machine propelled by power other than human power designed
to travel along the ground by use of wheels, treads, runners, or slides
and transport persons or property or pull machinery, and shall include
without limitation, automobile, truck, trailer, motorcycle, tractor,
moped and motorized scooter.
No person shall abandon any vehicle within the Town and no person
shall leave any vehicle at any place within the Town for such time
and under such circumstances as to cause such vehicle reasonably to
appear to have been abandoned.
No person shall leave any partially dismantled, nonoperating,
wrecked, or junked vehicle on any street or highway within the Town.
No person in charge or control of any property within the Town,
whether as owner, tenant, occupant, lessee, or otherwise, shall allow
any partially dismantled, non-operating, wrecked, junked or discarded
vehicle to remain on such property longer than 14 days; and no person
shall leave any such vehicle on any property within the Town for a
longer time than three days; except that this section shall not apply
with regard to a vehicle in an enclosed building; a vehicle on the
premises of a business enterprise operated in a lawful place and manner,
when necessary to the operation of such business enterprise; or a
vehicle in an appropriate storage place or depository maintained in
a lawful place and manner by the Town.
The Chief of Police or any member of his Department designated
by him is hereby authorized to remove or have removed any vehicle
left at any place within the Town which reasonably appears to be in
violation of this section or lost, stolen, or unclaimed. Such vehicle
shall be impounded until lawfully claimed or disposed of in accordance
with G.L. c.135 relative to unclaimed and abandoned property.
Any violation of this by-law shall be subject to a fine of $50.
Any person violating any of the provisions of this section shall be
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof may be
imprisoned for a period not exceeding 30 days or be both so fined
and imprisoned. Each day such violation is committed or permitted
to continue shall constitute a separate offense and shall be punishable
as such hereunder.
