No person shall erect, contrive, cause, continue, maintain or
permit to exist any public nuisance within the Town of Lawrence.
No person shall leave or permit to remain outside of any dwelling,
building or other structure, or within any unoccupied or abandoned
building, dwelling or other structure under his control in a place
accessible to children, any abandoned, unattended or discarded icebox,
refrigerator or other container which has an airtight door or cover
which has not been removed or which is not equipped with a device
for opening from the inside.
No person shall have or permit on any premises owned or occupied
by him any open cisterns, cesspools, wells, unused basements, excavations
or other dangerous openings. All such places shall be filled, securely
covered or fenced in such manner as to prevent injury to any person,
and any cover shall be of a design, size and weight that the same
cannot be removed by small children.
No person shall transport or haul to any dumping site in the
Town any materials without covering the same as provided under the
state law regulating solid waste disposal sites.
In addition to any other penalty imposed by this chapter for
the erection, contrivance, creation, continuance or maintenance of
a public nuisance, the cost of abating a public nuisance by the Town
shall be collected as a debt from the owner, occupant or person causing,
permitting or maintaining the nuisance, and if notice to abate the
nuisance has been given to the owner, such cost shall be assessed
against the real estate as a special charge.
Whoever does any of the following shall be subject to the penalties
of the Municipal Code of the Town of Lawrence:
A. Without reasonable excuse fails or refuses to render assistance when
lawfully called upon to do so by a person known to him/her to be an
officer of an organization established for the purpose of extinguishing
fires or preventing fire hazards or refuses to obey a lawful order
of anyone who he/she knows to be connected with such organization;
or
B. Interferes with the accessibility to a fire hydrant by piling or
dumping materials near it without first obtaining permission from
the appropriate municipal authority. The material piled or dumped
near the hydrant includes snow and ice removed from private property.
Every day during which such interference continues constitutes a separate
offense.
Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter shall, upon due conviction thereof, be subject to a penalty as provided in §
1-3 of this Code for each such offense. Each violation of this chapter and each day of violation of this chapter shall constitute a separate offense.