[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Lunenburg as Art. V of the
Town Bylaws. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Amended 5-7-2022 ATM by Art. 24]
No person shall, within the limits of any street or highway
in the Town, play at any game of ball or engage in any amusement,
game or exercise interfering with the safe and convenient use of such
streets or highways by travelers, except by the permission of the
Select Board.
[Amended 5-13-1987; 5-6-2017 ATM by Art. 34; 5-7-2022 ATM by Art. 24]
No person shall break or dig up the wrought part of any highway
or street right-of-way, or place within the limits of any street or
highway any obstruction or rubbish, stones, ashes, or any animal or
vegetable substance or offal, or move any building into or along the
same, without a license from the Select Board, the Town Manager (or
equivalent), or DPW Director or his or her designated agent.
No person shall tie any animal to any ornamental or shade tree,
vine or shrub in any street or on any public land, or to any structure
put up for the protection of the same, or shall otherwise willfully
or wantonly injure or deface any public building or any public grounds.
No owner, or person having the care of any swine, sheep, horses,
mules, or neat cattle, shall allow the same to go at large in any
highway or public place in the Town, except under proper restraint.
No person shall make any indecent figures or write indecent
or obscene words upon, or mar, disfigure or deface any fence, building
or other public place within the Town; and no person shall behave
in a disorderly manner, or use any indecent or profane language in
any street, lane, alley or other public place in the Town, or near
any dwelling house or obstruct the free passage of foot travelers
on such sidewalk; and no person shall saunter or loiter in a street
in such a manner as to obstruct travelers; but nothing in this section
shall be construed to curtail, abridge or limit the right of opportunity
to any person to exercise the right of peaceful persuasion guaranteed
by MGL c. 149, § 24, or to curtail, abridge or limit the
intendment of any statute of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Whoever
violates any portion of this bylaw shall be punished by a fine of
not more than $50 for each offense.
[Amended 5-7-2022 ATM by Art. 24]
No person shall place any table, tent, booth, stall or other
thing in a street, highway, sidewalk, or on any of the public grounds
in the Town, for the sale of fruit, or any other things, without a
license from the Select Board.
No person shall wantonly injure, mar, deface, or destroy a fence,
signboard, guidepost, guideboard, awning, lamp post, streetlight,
or lantern in a street, highway or public place in the Town.
[Amended 5-7-2022 ATM by Art. 24]
No person shall nail, post or paste any advertisement or notice
upon a shade tree, bridge, fence, guide post, electric light or telephone
pole in the Town, or erect any advertising signboard within the Town
limits without permission from the Select Board.
No person shall set out, suffer or cause to be grown at or near
the line of intersecting public ways any trees, shrubs, or bushes
in such manner, or to such height, as will constitute an obstruction
to the vision of persons operating motor vehicles along such ways.
[Amended 4-1979]
No person shall drink any alcoholic beverage as defined in MGL
c. 138, § 1, or possess an opened container full or partially
full of any alcoholic beverage, while on, in, or upon any public way,
upon any way to which the public has a right of access, in any place
to which members of the public have access as invitees or licensees,
in any park or playground, conservation area or recreation area, on
private land or place without consent of the owner or person in control
thereof. Any person convicted of violating this bylaw shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $200 for each offense.
[Amended 5-13-1987]
No person shall plow, shovel, or otherwise place snow, ice,
and debris onto that portion of any public way which is open to travel.
The punishment for violation shall be $50.
[Amended 5-14-1988 by Art. No. 55]
A permit is required to be issued by the DPW Director or his
designated agent for improvements which increase the volume of surface
water onto Town ways.
No person shall leave an unauthorized vehicle unattended within
the limits of private ways furnishing means of access for fire apparatus
to any building.
