[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town of Kingston as Ch. 7, Art. 1, of the General Bylaws; amended 6-15-2017 ATM. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall break or dig up any public sidewalk, street or highway of the Town, or place thereon any staging or other temporary structure, without a written permit from the Board of Selectmen or the board having charge of the streets in such cases. Any person having such a permit shall, before the expiration of the same, restore such sidewalk, street or highway to its original condition or to a condition satisfactory to such Board. Any permit issued under the provisions of this section shall be in force for such time as the Board may specify and shall be subject to such other conditions as the Board may prescribe, and especially in every case upon condition that during the whole of every night from sunset to sunrise, lighted lanterns and proper barriers shall be so placed as to secure travelers from danger. No person having obtained such permit shall fail to comply with the conditions thereof. The Board granting such permit shall have the right to revoke the same at any time, and may require a bond either before or after the commencement of work or during its progress to secure its proper performance.
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Sharp objects. No person shall throw or place or cause to be thrown or placed upon any public street or highway of the Town any nails, spikes, screws, glass, tin cans, or other similar articles.
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Grates and platforms. No person shall suffer a platform or grate of an entrance or opening to a cellar or basement in any public street or sidewalk to rise above the surface of any such street or sidewalk, and every such entrance or opening shall at all times be covered by a suitable platform or grate and, in case of a coal hole, by a suitable covering. Such entrances or openings, when in use, shall be properly guarded.
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Slippery substances. No person shall throw or place upon any public sidewalk or street crossing, any banana skin, orange skin, or other slippery substance.
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Ashes, rubbish. No person shall place ashes, rubbish, or merchandise of any kind in a public street or upon any sidewalk so as to obstruct the free passage thereon.
No person shall place or cause to be placed in any of the Town ways or squares, or upon any Town sidewalk, without first obtaining a written permit from the Selectmen therefor, any wood, lumber, coal, barrel, or other obstruction.
No owner or person having the care of a building, abutting upon any brick, concrete or other curbed or finished sidewalk, the roof of which building slants toward such sidewalk, shall permit such building to be without barrier, snow guard or other device to prevent the falling of snow or ice from such roof to the sidewalk.
No person shall coast on or across any public sidewalk or street of the Town, except at such times and in such places as may from time to time be designated by the Board of Selectmen.
No person shall fire or discharge any gun, pistol or other firearms in or across any of the streets or public places within the Town; but this section shall not apply to the use of such weapons in the lawful defense of one's person, family or property, or in performance of any duty required or authorized by law, nor upon such days as may be designated by the Board of Selectmen, or for hunting conducted in accordance with all applicable laws and regulations upon property under the care and control of the Conservation Commission where hunting is not prohibited.
Any person who intends to erect, alter, take down any building or part thereof on land within the Town shall give notice thereof to the Selectmen. Thereupon, the Selectmen may grant a permit for such erection, alteration, or razing as in their judgment the necessity of the case demands and the security of the public allows. No person shall use any portion of a Town way without receiving permission, in writing, from the Selectmen for the placing thereon building materials or rubbish. Such permission shall in no case be in effect longer than 90 days and be on such condition, and by furnishing such security, by bond or otherwise, for the observance and performance of the conditions and for the protection of the Town as the Selectmen may require.
Whenever, for the purpose of removing or plowing snow or removing ice from any way, it becomes necessary to remove, or cause to be removed, to some convenient place, including in such term a public garage, any vehicle interfering with such work, the Superintendent of Streets, or other officer having charge of ways, is hereby authorized to remove, or cause to be removed, the said vehicle; and liability for the cost of such removal, and of the storage charges, if any, resulting therefrom, shall be imposed upon the owner of such vehicle.
No horse or other grazing cattle or swine shall be suffered to run at large within the principal inhabited parts of this Town, or to remain or loiter by the roadside, or the roadside of any railroad corporation, or to feed upon or to root up the herbage therein, either with or without a keeper; and no person shall voluntarily permit the same to go upon any sidewalk, harnessed or unharnessed.
No person shall tie or fasten any horse to, or have the same standing by, any ornamental or shade tree, in or near the streets, lanes, or places of this Town so near as to injure any unprotected tree or wrongfully injure or abuse such tree in any other manner.