[Adopted 3-5-1945 (former
Ch. V, §§ 1, 3, 5, 6, 7, 11 and 12); amended 12-30-1963]
No persons shall remain assembled on any sidewalk in front of
any church, dwelling house, or other building so as to obstruct passage
along the same, or to impede or annoy other persons.
No person shall throw stones, snowballs, sticks or other missiles,
kick a football, play at any game in which a ball is used, fly kites,
or shoot with or use an air gun, bow and arrows, slingshots, or other
similar devices on or across any public ways of this Town.
No person shall maliciously throw or drop any paper, paper container
or other refuse on any public way in this Town.
No person shall maliciously throw or drop any flaming, smoldering
or burning material from a vehicle of any kind on public ways in this
Town.
The Director of Public Works shall be authorized to remove or
cause to be removed to a convenient public garage any vehicle interfering
with the removal or plowing of snow or ice, and the cost of such removal
or storage charges, if any, resulting therefrom shall be paid by the
owner of the vehicle.
No persons shall play, push or throw any snow or ice onto any
street or sidewalk of the Town unless it is immediately removed therefrom.
[Adopted 5-9-1987 (former
Ch. XV); amended 5-13-1989]
The Town of Wenham is authorized to make temporary repairs on
private ways pursuant to MGL c. 40, § 6, in accordance with
the following bylaw.
The owners of land that abuts a private way open to continuous
public use for 10 years or more may petition the Board of Selectmen,
on a form to be provided by the Town, which must be signed by the
owners of at least 80% of the parcels of land abutting such private
way, to have the Town make temporary emergency or general repairs
to such private way. If the Board of Selectmen determines that public
necessity will be served thereby, it may authorize such repairs to
be made by the Town, in accordance with the provisions of this bylaw,
upon the condition that the petitioning abutters agree to indemnify
and hold the Town harmless for claims for personal and property injury
resulting from any repairs performed by the Town on or defects in
such private way. A private way repaired pursuant to this bylaw shall
continue to be open to public use.
If upon receipt of an abutter's petition the Board of Selectmen
determines that public safety or safe access by public service vehicles
on the private way so requires, it may order that temporary emergency
repairs be made to the private way at the Town's expense. Such temporary
emergency repairs shall be limited to the filling and patching of
holes in the surface of such private ways or the least expensive feasible
correction to a defect in drainage which has caused a blockage of
such private way.
The Town shall not be liable on account of any damage caused
by temporary emergency repairs or general repairs performed by the
Town pursuant to this bylaw. The Town shall post warning signs at
the beginning of such private way that the Town is not responsible
for any repairs to or defects in such way, and that members of the
public use the same at their own risk.