No person shall stand in any public street for the purpose of hawking or selling any article or for the exercise of any business or calling, after being requested to desist therefrom by any police officer of the Town.
[Adopted as Art. 7 of the General Bylaws]
[Amended 1980 ATM by Art. 37; 4-24-2017 ATM by Art. 10]
No person or persons shall stand in a group or near each other on any way, sidewalk, or seawall, or park any vehicle on any sidewalk, way or other place to which the public has a right of access in such a manner as to obstruct the free passage of pedestrians or vehicles, and any such person or persons shall at once move on an order of a police officer or special police officer, and any such person or persons after refusing or neglecting to move on such order may be arrested without a warrant by any police officer or special police officer. Any person who violates this bylaw shall be fined $100 for each offense.
[Amended 7-14-1966 STM by Art. 5]
No person shall behave in a rude, indecent or disorderly manner or use any indecent, profane, insolent or insulting language, make threats or use other language tending to create a breach of the peace in any public place, any street or sidewalk or place to which the public has a right of access in the Town or upon any doorstep, portico or other projection from any house or building or in any other place within audible distance of any dwelling, house or other building thereon.
No persons shall leave any wagon, cart, or other vehicle, wood, coal, or other articles in any street, way or sidewalk, and suffer the same to remain overnight without maintaining a sufficient light over or near the same, through the night to protect travelers from danger.
[Amended 4-24-2017 ATM by Art. 10]
No person shall drive any horse, cattle or swine, or permit the same while under his care to go upon any sidewalk, or suffer any horse to remain hitched across any sidewalk so as to cause injury to person or property, or to obstruct the safe and convenient passing of persons lawfully using the same.
[Amended 10-18-2004 STM by Art. 5; 4-24-2017 ATM by Art. 10]
No person shall throw or deposit in the street, or on any sidewalk in any public area, or any public way, or any park or other recreation area, or any other Town land or property any ashes, dirt, rubbish or filth of any kind, appliances, tires, television sets, computers, or any animal or vegetable matter, except such material as may be used to prevent slipping. Any person who violates this bylaw shall be fined $300 for each offense. Each day of a continuing violation shall count as a separate offense.
No person shall make any indecent figure or write any indecent or obscene words upon any fence, building or structure in any public place, or commit any nuisance upon any sidewalk, or against any tree, building, or structure adjoining the same.
[Amended 4-24-2017 ATM by Art. 10]
The contents of any sink, cesspool, or privy shall not be emptied on any beach or into the sea adjacent to any beach in the Town but shall be disposed of in the earth or otherwise as the Board of Health may by rules provide, but apart from any dwelling house.
A.
No motor vehicle shall be operated on any beach in the Town of Marshfield except emergency and agricultural or farm vehicles and those vehicles authorized by special permission of the Police Department.
[Added 7-14-1966 STM by Art. 18; amended 1984 ATM by Art. 88]
B.
No vehicle shall be driven over the sand dunes, and vehicular access to the Town beach shall be solely by routes established by the Select Board, marked by the Department of Public Works and enforced by the Police Department.
[Amended 1973 ATM by Art. 72; 10-18-2021 STM by Art. 32]
[Amended 1980 ATM by Art. 36; 1992 ATM by Art. 54; 4-24-2017 ATM by Art. 10]
No person shall drink any alcoholic beverages as defined in MGL c. 138, § 1, whether in or upon a vehicle or on foot, while in or upon any public way or any place to which the public has a right of access, or any place to which the public has access as invitees or licensees, or any park or playground, or beach, or seawall (nor carry or cause to be carried any alcoholic beverages onto any park or playground, or beach, or seawall); nor shall any person drink any alcoholic beverages while in or upon private land or private building, or private structure, or private place without the consent of the owners or person in lawful control thereof. Any police officer or special police officer may arrest without a warrant any person found violating this bylaw or who the police officer or special police officer has probable cause to believe has violated this bylaw. Any person violating this bylaw shall be fined $100 for each offense.
No person shall dive or swim from any bridge or part thereof into a navigable boat channel in the Town of Marshfield.