[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:
A. 
Sexual intercourse, masturbation, sodomy, flagellation, or any sexual acts prohibited by law;
B. 
Touching, caressing or fondling the breasts, buttocks, or genitals of another or one's own person.
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.
It is forbidden to employ or permit any person in or on the licensed premises to show motion-picture films, still photographs or any other photographic reproductions depicting any person or any acts or any simulation of any acts prohibited in §§ 326-2 through 326-6, inclusive.
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.