[Amended 2-14-2005 STM
by Art. 12]
No person except officers of the Town in the lawful performance
of their duties and those acting under their order shall obstruct
any sidewalk or street or any part thereof or break, dig or excavate
or assist in breaking, digging up or excavating any part of a public
street, highway or Town way or remove any gravel or other similar
thing from a public street, highway or Town way unless he has obtained
a written permit from the board of selectmen or their designee. Every
person receiving such a permit shall execute a written agreement to
indemnify and save harmless the Town against all loss, damage or cost
suffered or claimed on account of the existence of such obstruction
or excavation, and shall leave the street or way at the completion
of the work in as good condition as the same was before the work commenced.
Whoever by virtue of any permit issued under the provisions
of this article, breaks, digs up, excavates or causes to be dug up
or broken up or excavated any part of a public street, highway or
Town way, shall cause a rail or other sufficient fence to be placed
so as to enclose the part of the street so dug up, broken up, or excavated,
and the dirt, gravel or other material thrown therefrom, and he or
they shall cause a lighted lantern to be fixed on some part of such
fence and so kept from sunset to sunrise during all the time that
such street, highway or Town way remains dug up or broken up or such
excavation exists.
