[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Wrentham
as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted where applicable.]
[Adopted as Art. 5.10, Secs. 5 and 10, of the 2013 Bylaws]
The following acts of conduct or dress in or on premises licensed
in accordance with the MGL c. 138, §§ 1, 12, 14, and
23 are deemed contrary to the public need, and to the common good,
and therefore no license shall be held for the sale of alcoholic beverages
to be served and/or drunk in or on the licensed premises where such
acts, conduct or dress is permitted.
It is forbidden to employ or permit any person in or on the
licensed premises while such person is unclothed, or in such attire
as to expose to view any portion of the areola of the female breast
or any portion of the male and/or female genitals, pubic hair, buttocks
or groin. Entertainers shall wear a nontransparent material which
conceals the areola of the female breast.
It is forbidden to employ or permit any hostess, waitress or
other person to mingle with the patrons while such hostess, waitress
or other person is unclothed or in such attire as would expose to
view any portion of the areola of the female breasts or any portion
of the male and/or female pubic hair, genitals, buttocks or groin.
It is forbidden to encourage or permit any person in or on the
licensed premises to touch, caress or fondle the breasts, buttocks
or genitals of one's own person or of any other person.
It is forbidden to employ or permit any person to wear or use any device, apparatus or covering exposed to view which simulates the breasts, buttocks, pubic hair or genitals or any portion thereof which would be a violation of § 326-2 above.
It is forbidden to employ or permit any person to in or on the
licensed premises to perform an act or acts, or to simulate the act
or acts of:
It is forbidden to allow any entertainer to perform in or on
the licensed premises, while in the course of his or her entertainment
or performance, so as to entertain or perform less than three feet
from any patron in or on the licensed premises.
At all times, the entire area of the premises must be continually
illuminated to the degree of not less than one footcandle (measured
30 inches from the floor), except those portions of the room covered
by furniture.
No employee and/or entertainer shall solicit, induce, or request
a patron to purchase any alcoholic or nonalcoholic beverage for them
or any other person. Nothing shall prohibit the above activity between
any employee and/or entertainer and any person who is related by blood
or marriage.
No devices, mechanical, electrical or otherwise, shall be utilized
by any licensee or anyone for whose conduct said licensee is responsible,
for the purpose of signaling employees, entertainers, and/or patrons
that agents of licensing authorities or law enforcement authorities
are present.
Notwithstanding any of the foregoing provisions of this bylaw,
no person duly licensed by the Licensing Board of the Town of Wrentham
under MGL c. 138, § 1, 12, 14, or 23 shall employ, use the
services of, or permit upon his licensed premises any employees, entertainer,
or other person who by his or her attire or conduct violates any general
law, special act or bylaw of Wrentham.
The penalty for any violation of this bylaw shall be in accordance
with the applicable provisions of MGL c. 40, § 21.
Any officer of the Wrentham Police Department shall have the
power to enforce the provisions of this bylaw. Any person who violates
any provision of this bylaw shall be subject to a penalty of $100
unless a particular fine is specified for such violation. Any officer
taking cognizance of a violation of any provision of this bylaw, as
an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings, may give to the
offender a written notice to appear before the Clerk of the Wrentham
District Court at any time during office hours, not later than 21
days after the date of such notice. Such notice shall be served in
the form and manner prescribed by MGL c. 40, § 21D, and
shall be subject to the procedure for disposition set forth therein.
[Adopted as Art. 5.10, Secs. 6 and 10, of the 2013 Bylaws]
[Amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
No person shall leave any vehicle or material or place any obstruction
in any sidewalk, street or public place and suffer the same to remain
there overnight without maintaining a sufficient light and suitable
guards over or near the same throughout the night, nor allow the same
to remain after notice from a police officer, constable or the Select
Board to remove the same.
No person shall behave in an indecent or disorderly manner in
any public place or on any street or sidewalk in the Town or any public
dwelling house or other buildings therein, or upon any doorstep, portico
or other projection from any such house or other building to the annoyance
or disturbance of any person; nor shall any person throw or drop in
or upon any footpath, sidewalk, or highway in the Town any metal,
mineral or other thing that might or would be a source of annoyance
or danger to anyone lawfully passing over or using the same.
Three or more persons shall not stand in a group or near each
other on any public way or sidewalk in such a manner as to obstruct
a free passage for pedestrians after a request to move on made by
any constable or police officer.
No person shall throw or deposit in any manner upon any public
way, place or square in the Town any article, substance or material
which may prove injurious in any respect to the hoofs of animals,
the tires of bicycles or the rubber tires of automobiles and other
vehicles.
No person having the charge of a vehicle in any street shall
neglect or refuse to stop the same as directed by a constable or police
officer.
No person shall, without proper authority, intermeddle with
or willfully break any arc lamp or lamp globe or incandescent lamps
or any insulators or attachments used to carry power for electric
streetlighting or any parts of said lamps or globes or of the fixtures
thereof placed or located within the limits of any public way or place
in the Town.
No person shall, without proper authority, intermeddle with
or willfully break or injure any hydrant, gate, gate box, or water
pipe placed or located within the limits of any public way or place
in the Town.
No person shall make any figures or write any obscene words
upon any fence, building, or structure in any public place, or deface
any sidewalk, tree, building or structure.
No person shall ride any horse or drive any horse or horses
attached to a vehicle of any description in or upon any street or
way for public travel at such an immoderate rate of speed as to injure
or inconvenience any person standing, walking or riding therein.
No person shall, by any means or in any manner, willfully frighten
any horse, or play at any game in which a ball is used, or shoot with
bows and arrows, air guns, fly any kites, or throw stones or other
missiles in any street or any sidewalk.
[Amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
No person shall skate or coast upon any sled upon any sidewalk
or any street or public place except at such times and upon such streets
or places as the Select Board may, by public notice, designate for
such purpose.
[Amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
No person shall discharge any gun, fowling piece, pistol or
firearm, or set fire to any material known as fireworks, or other
combustible matter, or throw any such lighted fireworks in any of
the public ways or streets of the Town, except on such occasions and
of such character and kind as the Select Board may, by public note,
permit; provided, however, this section shall not apply to any person
in the exercise of a duty required or justified by law.
No person shall have more than one unregistered motor vehicle
ungaraged on his premises in a residential district at any time. In
no event will an unregistered, unsightly motor vehicle be stored in
the front yard.
[Added 3-14-1994 STM;
amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
No person shall enter any real property under the control of
the Select Board, the Department of Public Works, the School Department,
the Conservation Commission or any other board or agency of the Town
of Wrentham after having been forbidden to do so, whether personally
or by notice posted thereon.
[Amended 11-21-2022 STM by Art. 2]
No person shall violate any lawfully posted regulation of the
Select Board regarding fishing, boating, bathing, skating and other
recreational activities in or on Lake Archer, Mirror Lake and Lake
Pearl.
Any officer of the Wrentham Police Department shall have the
power to enforce the provisions of this bylaw. Any person who violates
any provision of this bylaw shall be subject to a penalty of $100
unless a particular fine is specified for such violation. Any officer
taking cognizance of a violation of any provision of this bylaw, as
an alternative to initiating criminal proceedings, may give to the
offender a written notice to appear before the Clerk of the Wrentham
District Court at any time during office hours, not later than 21
days after the date of such notice. Such notice shall be served in
the form and manner prescribed by MGL c. 40, § 21D, and
shall be subject to the procedure for disposition set forth therein.
