No person shall leave any vehicle or material or place any obstruction on any sidewalk, street, or public place without the permission of the Select Board, or suffer the same to remain there after dark without maintaining sufficient light and suitable guards over or near the same or allow the same to remain after notice by a police officer, Constable or Select Board to remove the same.
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Merrimac as Art. V of the 2016 General Bylaws. Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall, without proper authority, extinguish or remove any light placed upon public or private property to denote any obstruction or defect in a street or way.
No person shall park upon, obstruct, damage or destroy any sidewalk or curbing, nor shall any person drive, wheel or draw any vehicle, except a child's carriage drawn by hand, or except at a permanent driveway, upon or across any sidewalk or curbing unless a permit is first obtained from the Director of Public Works as provided in Subsection A hereof.
A.
The Director of Public Works may grant a permit to any person authorizing the crossing or obstruction of a sidewalk, or curbing by a vehicle where the same may be necessary to the performance of any work on land, building or structure abutting thereon.
(1)
All damage to any sidewalk or curbing thereby caused shall be repaired and restored by person to whom the permit is issued to a condition satisfactory to the Director of Public Works at the expense of the holder of such permit, and the Director may require, as a condition of the issuance of any such permit, a bond in such amount and in such form and such surety as may be satisfactory to them for the performance of the requirement thereof of this bylaw.
B.
Before the issuance of a permit for the construction of a building or other structure, there shall be endorsed, on the application for the building permit, certification by the Director of Public Works that a permit has been issued in accordance with the provisions of this section, when the proposed construction requires the crossing by vehicles of any sidewalk or curbing.
No person shall place or maintain any structure, sign apparatus, awning, canopy, shade or frame for the same in or over any sidewalk or street without first obtaining a permit, in writing, from the Select Board to do so.
Any person who deposits snow, or water or causes snow or water to be deposited or pumped from private property onto a public way that creates a hazardous condition shall be subject to a fine of $50.
No person, utility, or Town Department shall:
A.
Make any excavation, modify, or fill any excavation within the limits of any public way without first obtaining a written permit from the Select Board, except a utility may excavate in the event of an emergency involving the health or safety of the public.
B.
No person, utility, or Town department shall excavate a public highway to the extent that the highway is closed to traffic without first notifying the Fire, Police and Highway Departments of the time excavation will take place and the expected duration of the time during which the highway will be impassable to traffic.
Any person who deposits, throws, or causes to be thrown or placed upon any street, highway, sidewalk or other property of the Town any dirt, rubbish, vegetable substance, nails, spikes, screws, glass, tin can, or other similar articles shall be subject to a fine of up to $250.
No person shall commit a nuisance upon any sidewalk or street, or against any tree, building or structure adjoining the same.
The Select Board may cause repairs to unaccepted ways maintained by the Town; drainage may be included, provided that the following conditions are met:
A.
There will be no change in the character of the way and no permanent expansion therein.
B.
A determination by majority vote of the Board that public convenience and necessity require said repairs.
C.
The Town, in making of repairs under this section, shall not be liable on account of any damage caused by such repairs.