[Adopted as Sections 2, 14, 15, 16, 20 and
25 of Article VI of the 7-10-1964 Compilation of Bylaws]
No person shall place or cause to be placed
upon any public way or sidewalk any lumber, wood, bale, box, crate,
barrel, can, package or other thing and allow the same to remain for
more than one hour after being notified to remove the same by a constable,
police officer or Selectman.
No person shall ride, drive, draw or push any
motorcycle, automobile, wagon or sled (except invalid's or children's
hand carriages) over or upon any public footpath or sidewalk, unless
in the performance of a public duty or in entering a public or private
way.
No person having charge of a vehicle, whether
motor- or horse-driven, in any public way shall neglect to stop the
same or to place the same when stopped as directed by a police officer
of the Town, nor shall neglect or refuse to go upon that part of said
way to which such person is directed by a police officer of the Town.
No person having charge of any vehicle, whether
motor- or horse-driven, shall stop the same so as to obstruct any
crossing, public or private way or to interfere with the passage of
pedestrians at any crossing, nor shall any person stop any such vehicle
nor allow the same to remain in any public way in such a manner as
to obstruct the free passage of other vehicles or pedestrians thereon.
A.
Any person, being the owner, tenant, sharecropper
or occupant of any land, abutting upon any Town way, county road or
other public highway, except only a state highway, in the Town of
Deerfield, which has been improved by the application thereto of tar,
oil, asphalt, tarvia, bitumen or similar substances or combinations
or preparations thereof, who shall so plow, harrow, cultivate or otherwise
so farm, work or use said abutting land by himself, his agent or servant
or under his direction or in the course of said husbandry; or otherwise
shall so use such adjoining improved way, road or highway as, thereby,
to cause to be deposited or to accumulate upon the improved surface
of any such way, road or highway gravel, sand, sod, earth, manure
compost, debris, detritus or wash of any kind whatsoever shall incur
for violation of this article a penalty, by fine, not exceeding the
amount of $20 for each offense, to be recovered upon complaint before
the District Court of Franklin.
B.
Upon such violation or neglect, the Superintendent
of Streets of the Town of Deerfield may cause such deposit or accumulation
to be removed from the tarred or oiled surface of such way or road
at the expense of the person liable thereof, and such expense, to
an amount not exceeding the penalty, may be recovered in an action
of contract by the Town of Deerfield.
No person shall deposit, throw or place or cause
to be deposited, thrown or placed any ice or snow upon that part of
any public way or sidewalk in the Town which has been cleared or plowed
for travel.
[Added 9-15-2003 STM, Art. 8[1]]
Whoever violates any provision of this Chapter 156 shall be subject to a penalty as follows: first offense $50; second offense $100; third and subsequent offense $200. Each day that said violation continues shall constitute a separate offense. These penalties shall be enforced by the Highway Superintendent.
[1]
Editor's Note: This bylaw also provided for
the renumbering of subsequent sections of this chapter.
