No person shall put or place, or cause to be put or placed,
in or upon any public street, square, or other way customarily and
lawfully used for public travel, or upon any sidewalk appurtenant
thereto, any ashes, glass, crockery, scrap iron, wire, tin, nails,
tacks, or any other article of a nature likely to cause injury to
pedestrians traveling on such a way or sidewalk, or to automobiles,
carriages, bicycles or any other vehicles moving on such street, way,
or square; or which might wound, disable or injure any horse or other
domestic animal; or which might cut, puncture or otherwise injure
any pneumatic tire.
No person shall deface, injure, destroy, or remove any signboard,
or other thing used to designate the business or employment of any
other person.
No fireworks, firecrackers, torpedoes, bombs, squibs, rockets,
spinwheels or other things containing any substance of an explosive
nature designed or intended to be used as fireworks shall be discharged
or set off within the compact section, excepting from midnight July
3 to midnight July 5; provided, however, that the municipal officers
may, upon application, grant permission under such terms and conditions
as they may deem expedient for pyrotechnic displays on days other
than the fourth day of July, and provided, further, that whenever
the fourth day of July shall fall upon Sunday, the foregoing exception
shall apply to the next succeeding day.
Whoever shall violate any of the provisions of any ordinance
shall forfeit and pay not less than one or more than $5 for each offense,
except in cases where other specific penalties have been hereinabove
imposed.
The above ordinances will become effective when approved, and
all former Town ordinances or parts thereof inconsistent with this
chapter are hereby repealed.
State Law Reference: 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 751 to
754; 17 M.R.S.A. § 2802; 17-A M.R.S.A. § 505;
23 M.R.S.A. §§ 3252 and 3452; 29 M.R.S.A. § 1752; 17 M.R.S.A. § 343; 17-A M.R.S.A. § 954; 30 M.R.S.A. §§ 1917
and 2151; 17-A M.R.S.A. §§ 507, 511, 501, 854; 12 M.R.S.A. § 7406; 25 M.R.S.A. §§ 2031 to 2035; 8 M.R.S.A. §§ 211 to 217.