[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Winchester effective 4-17-1906 (§ 3 of the prior compilation).
Amendments noted where applicable.]
If any person or corporation shall maintain or continue within
the limits of the Town of Winchester any old or dilapidated structure
or edifice, or part thereof, in such manner or place as to subject
other property to danger from fire, or in any manner to endanger the
public health or safety, or whoever shall place or suffer any encumbrance
to exist upon any sidewalk or highway, or whoever shall encroach upon
any sidewalk or highway by the erection of any structure or device
upon or over the same, or whoever shall permit any tree, branches
or roots thereof to incommode or endanger the public travel, or whoever
shall cause any excavation to be dug in or so near to any sidewalk
or highway as to endanger the public thereby, or whoever shall commit
or maintain any public nuisance of any kind or character within the
limits of said Town shall be fined not to exceed $100, and in the
case of any continuing nuisance upon second conviction shall be fined
not to exceed $100, and each day's continuance thereof shall constitute
a separate and distinct offense.
Any encumbrance upon or encroachment so near to any sidewalk
or street as to inconvenience the public travel, or any structure
above any sidewalk or street, shall be deemed a public nuisance and
may be summarily abated by any Selectman or by the Director of Public
Works.
The Board of Selectmen may at any time order the abatement of
any public nuisance existing upon private property, and upon the neglect
of the person or corporation to abate the same within the time limits
in said order may cause the summary abatement thereof by the Director
of Public Works or by any indifferent person at the expense of the
person or corporation so maintaining said nuisance and neglecting
or refusing to abate the same, and the amount thereof may be collected
by civil action in the name of the Town of Winchester.
