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 same throughout the night nor allow same to remain after notice from a police officer of Norfolk to remove same.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Norfolk 3-16-1936 (Art. X, §§ 2 to 5, 7 to 11, 13 to 16, 18 and 24, of the General Bylaws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
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, fly any kites, or throw stones or other missiles in any street or on any sidewalk.
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 purposes.
No person shall discharge any gun, fowling piece, pistol, or firearm or set fire to any material known as fireworks, or other combustible matter, in any of the public ways or street of the Town, except on such occasions and of such character and kind as the Chief of Police may, by public notice, permit; provided, however, this section shall not apply to any person abating a nuisance or in the exercise of duty required or justified by law.
No person shall behave in a rude, indecent, or disorderly manner or use any indecent, profane or insulting language in any public place or in any street or sidewalk in the Town or near any dwelling house or other building 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 piece of wire, metal, mineral, nail or other material that might or would be a source of annoyance or danger to anyone lawfully passing over or using 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 police officer of Norfolk.
[Amended 10-22-2002]
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 or the safe operation and passage of pedestrians, bicycles, automobiles or other vehicles.
A.
No person shall distribute or deposit advertising circulars, papers or other matter on the streets of the Town; or shall transport manure, hay, rubbish, ashes, liquid, or other material in such a manner as to litter, pollute, or injure the streets of the Town nor shall any person throw or deposit in any street or on any sidewalk dirt, ashes, rubbish, or other refuse of any kind except in the manner provided by the Board of Health.
[Amended 5-10-2022 ATM by Art. 18]
B.
No business concern shall use municipal trash receptacles for the disposal of the trash or litter produced from its business operation.
[Added 5-19-1982]
No person shall cart or convey garbage, manure, rubbish, or filth of any kind nor any noxious or refuse liquid or solid matter or substance in any public street or place, except in such a manner and at such times as the Board of Health by regulation or permit shall prescribe.
No person shall, without proper authority, extinguish or remove any light placed to denote an obstruction or defect in a street or way.
No person shall, without proper authority, intermeddle with or willfully break any arc lamp or lamp globe or incandescent lamp or any insulators or attachments used to carry wires within the limits of any public way or place in the Town.
No person shall make any indecent figures or write any indecent or obscene words upon any fence, building or structure in any public place, or commit a nuisance upon any sidewalk or against any tree, building or structure adjoining same.
No person shall, without right, willfully or intentionally remove, displace, destroy, deface, mar or injure any guideboard, boundary sign, guardrail, machinery, equipment, building or other property of the Town.
No person shall bathe or swim in any public place or exposed place in the Town in an indecent or nude condition.
[Added 11-5-1971; amended 3-26-1972]
No person, except an officer of the law in the performance of their duties, shall enter upon the premises of another or upon any public or private property with the intention of peeping into the windows of a house or other building or of spying in any manner upon any person or persons therein. A violation of this section shall be punishable by a fine of $20.
[Added 5-10-2022 ATM by Art. 18]