Town of Littleton, MA Article I Miscellaneous Provisions

[Adopted as Art. 5 of the 1977 compilation]

§ 150-1 Horses and carriages on sidewalks.

No person shall hitch his horse or suffer any horse to remain hitched across any sidewalk or draw or propel any handcart, wheelbarrow or carriage of burden or pleasure, except children's carriages drawn by hand, over any sidewalks so as thereby to cause any injury either to person or property of others or to obstruct the safe and convenient passing of persons lawfully using the same or to injure or encumber any such sidewalk. No person shall stop his team, carriage or other vehicle or unnecessarily place any obstruction on any foot crossing made in and across any public ways in the Town.

§ 150-2 Obstructions on sidewalks.

No person shall leave any vehicle or material or place any obstruction on any sidewalk, street or public place without the permission of the Select Board or suffer the same to remain there after dark without maintaining a sufficient light and suitable guards over or near the same or allow the same to remain after notice by a police officer, Constable or Selectman to remove the same.

§ 150-3 Injuring of animals' hooves and rubber tires.

No person shall throw or deposit in any manner on any public way, place or square in the Town any article, substance or material which may prove injurious in any respect to the hooves of animals, the tires of bicycles or the rubber tires of automobiles and other vehicles.

§ 150-4 Tampering with safety lights.

No person shall, without proper authority, extinguish or remove any light placed to denote an obstruction or defect in a street or way.

§ 150-5 Crossing or obstructing sidewalks or curbing.

No person shall park upon, obstruct, damage or destroy any sidewalk, berm or curbing, nor shall any person drive, wheel or draw any vehicle, except a child's carriage drawn by hand or except at a permanent driveway, upon or across any sidewalk, berm or curbing unless a permit is first obtained from the Superintendent of Streets and Highways as provided in Subsection A hereof.

A. The Superintendent of Streets and Highways may grant a permit to any person authorizing the crossing or obstruction of a sidewalk, berm or curbing by vehicles where the same may be necessary to the performance of any work on land, building or structure abutting thereon. All damage to any sidewalk, berm or curbing caused thereby shall be repaired and restored by the person to whom the permit is issued to a condition satisfactory to the Superintendent of Streets and Highways at the expense of the holder of such permit, and the Superintendent may require, as a condition of the issuance of any such permit, a bond in such amount and in such form and with such surety as may be satisfactory to him/her for the performance of the requirements thereof and of this chapter.

B. The use of velocipedes or bicycles is permitted on the sidewalks of the Town. This chapter shall not be construed to prevent the temporary obstruction of sidewalks during periods of loading or unloading, provided that no vehicle shall be driven upon any sidewalk, berm or curbing, except at a permanent driveway or pursuant to a permit issued by the Superintendent of Streets and Highways, as provided in Subsection A.

C. Before the issuance of a permit for the construction of a building or other structure, there shall be endorsed on the application for the building permit certification by the Superintendent of Streets and Highways that a permit has been issued in accordance with the provisions of this section when the proposed construction requires the crossing by vehicles of any sidewalk, berm or curbing.