City of Westbrook, ME
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2024-02-05
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The Code
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Part II: General Legislation
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Chapter 281 Streets and Sidewalks
- The Charter
- Ch C Charter
- The Code
- Part I: Administrative Legislation
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Boards, Commissions and Committees
- Ch 15 Defense and Indemnification
- Ch 21 Elections
- Ch 24 Emergency Management
- Ch 28 Ethics
- Ch 33 Finance
- Ch 36 Fire & Rescue Department
- Ch 52 Library
- Ch 57 Mayor and Council
- Ch 68 Officers and Employees
- Ch 80 Public Safety and Emergency Services
- Ch 90 Seal
- Part II: General Legislation
- Ch 103 Alarm Systems
- Ch 110 Animals
- Ch 117 Bicycles
- Ch 123 Building Construction
- Ch 131 Cable Television
- Ch 135 Cemeteries
- Ch 140 Development Assessment Districts
- Ch 144 Drug-Free Safe Zones
- Ch 153 Electrical Standards
- Ch 157 Events and Mass Gatherings
- Ch 162 Fire Protection and Prevention
- Ch 172 General Assistance
- Ch 184 Housing and Property Maintenance
- Ch 188 Human Rights
- Ch 205 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 216 Mobile Homes and Mobile Home Parks
- Ch 230 Parks and Recreation
- Ch 234 Peace and Good Order
- Ch 241 Plumbing
- Ch 245 Property Assessed Clean Energy
- Ch 246 Property Assessed Clean Energy, Commercial
- Ch 260 Sewers and Wastewater Treatment
- Ch 264 Sex Offenders
- Ch 272 Solid Waste
- Ch 278 Stormwater Management
- Ch 281 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 281 Art I General Provisions
- § 281-1 Authorized delay of street acceptance.
- § 281-2 Authority to cause streets naming and sign posting.
- § 281-3 Authority to cause numbering of dwellings and buildings.
- § 281-4 Failure to number dwellings and buildings unlawful.
- § 281-5 Removal of snow from private property to streets or sidewalks; penalty.
- § 281-6 Depositing, placing of rubbish, refuse, etc., prohibited.
- § 281-7 Drainage on streets prohibited.
- § 281-8 Underground streetlighting in development.
- Ch 281 Art II Street Construction and Improvements
- § 281-9 Laying out, acceptance, extension of streets less than 50 feet wide.
- § 281-10 Prerequisites to acceptance of previously constructed streets.
- § 281-11 Acceptance of streets with minimum width of 30 feet.
- § 281-12 Prerequisites to acceptance of streets constructed on private land.
- § 281-13 Public interest governs acceptance of streets.
- § 281-14 Plan, plot to be filed with engineer; engineer to fix grades.
- § 281-15 Contents of plot plan; boundary monuments regulated.
- § 281-16 Subgrade of streets, sidewalks; installation of underground utilities.
- § 281-17 Contents of profile; filing with engineer.
- § 281-18 Cross section of streets to be filed; required scale of cross section.
- § 281-19 Copy of plan and profile to be filed.
- § 281-20 General construction requirements.
- § 281-21 Requirements for sewers prior to acceptance of streets.
- § 281-22 Water mains required prior to acceptance of streets.
- § 281-23 Streets, sidewalks brought to finished grade; material requirements.
- § 281-24 Existing streets to be free of stumps, etc.; regulation of culverts, waterways.
- § 281-25 Dead-end streets.
- § 281-26 Public hearing for aggrieved party.
- Ch 281 Art III Sidewalks
- § 281-27 Information on construction.
- § 281-28 Engineer to prepare plan, schedule of lots benefited; Mayor to present to Council.
- § 281-29 Assessments on lots benefited by sidewalks.
- § 281-30 Municipal officers to levy, certify assessment; collection.
- § 281-31 Recording of collection of assessment.
- § 281-32 Mayor to direct construction and repair of sidewalks.
- § 281-33 Mayor to keep account of construction costs, report to Council.
- § 281-34 Minor repairs authorized without reference to Council.
- § 281-35 Maintenance expenses.
- § 281-36 Curbings.
- § 281-37 Altering sidewalks, setting posts, trees on sidewalks, streets.
- § 281-38 Obstructing sidewalks.
- § 281-39 Vehicles not to be propelled on sidewalks.
- Ch 281 Art IV Excavations
- § 281-40 Title.
- § 281-41 Definitions.
- § 281-42 Excavation permits required; conditions for issuance; limitation on time to commence work.
- § 281-43 Application for permit.
- § 281-44 Excavation permit fees.
- § 281-45 Minimum permit fee and special conditions.
- § 281-46 Deposit of permit fees.
- § 281-47 Routing of traffic.
- § 281-48 Clearance for fire equipment.
- § 281-49 Protection of traffic.
- § 281-50 Removal and protection of utilities.
- § 281-51 Protection of adjoining property.
- § 281-52 Sidewalk excavations.
- § 281-53 Protective measures.
- § 281-54 Attractive nuisance.
- § 281-55 Care of excavated material.
- § 281-56 Damage to existing improvements.
- § 281-57 Property lines and easements.
- § 281-58 Cleanup.
- § 281-59 Protection of watercourses.
- § 281-60 Breaking through pavement.
- § 281-61 Tunnels.
- § 281-62 Backfilling generally.
- § 281-63 Backfilling by water settling.
- § 281-64 Dry backfilling.
- § 281-65 Backfill material.
- § 281-66 Backfilling at surface.
- § 281-67 Notice to City and restoration of surface paving.
- § 281-68 Trenches in pipe laying.
- § 281-69 Prompt completion of work.
- § 281-70 Urgent work.
- § 281-71 Emergency action.
- § 281-72 Noise, dust and debris.
- § 281-73 Excavations barred in new street improvements.
- § 281-74 Installation and maintenance of gas lines.
- § 281-75 Preservation of monuments.
- § 281-76 Inspections.
- § 281-77 Maintain drawings.
- § 281-78 Inapplicability to City and state work.
- § 281-79 Insurance.
- § 281-80 Liability of City.
- § 281-81 Improper work completed by City.
- Ch 281 Art V Driveway Installations and Alterations
- § 281-82 Compliance with state rules and regulations.
- § 281-83 Permits required.
- § 281-84 Existing driveways exempt; exceptions.
- § 281-85 Prerequisite to issuance of building permit.
- § 281-86 Revocation of permit.
- Ch 281 Art VI Nonstormwater Discharge
- § 281-87 Definitions.
- § 281-88 Applicability.
- § 281-89 Responsibility for administration.
- § 281-90 Prohibition of nonstormwater discharges.
- § 281-91 Suspension of access to small MS4.
- § 281-92 Monitoring of discharges.
- § 281-93 Enforcement.
- § 281-94 Severability.
- § 281-95 Basis.
- Ch 281 Art VII Banner Signs in Public Right-of-Way
- § 281-96 Banner signs authorized.
- § 281-97 Qualifying organizations.
- § 281-98 Qualifying events; limitations on permits.
- § 281-99 Regulations for banner specifications; compliance with regulations.
- § 281-100 Advertising prohibited.
- § 281-101 Liability insurance required.
- § 281-102 Limitations on banner permits.
- § 281-103 Conflicting requests.
- § 281-104 Delivery of banner sign for installation.
- § 281-105 Responsibility for banner sign.
- § 281-106 Fee for banner sign permit application.
- § 281-107 Requirements for submission of applications.
- Ch 286 Taxation
- Ch 295 Trees and Forest
- Ch 307 Vehicles, All-Terrain
- Ch 310 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 319 Weapons and Explosives
- Part III: Land Use Legislation
- Ch 335 Land Use
- Appendix
- Ch A400 Master Fee Schedule
- Ch A401 Master Fine Schedule
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the City Council of the City of Westbrook
as Ch. XVI, §§ 2, 5, 8, 9, 18, 19 and 20, and Ch. XXVII,
§§ 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10, of the 1942 Code
(Ch. 29 of the 2007 Code). Amendments noted where applicable.]
STATE LAW REFERENCES
Municipal authority to establish and regulate the use of sidewalks — 30-A
M.R.S.A. § 3001.
State regulations regarding excavations in cities — 23
M.R.S.A. §§ 3351 to 3359.
