[Adopted 4-11-1977 as §§ 1.12, 5.1, 6.1,
12.18 and 12.19 and Ch. 8 of the 1977 Code]
The Town Council shall name all roads in the
Town of Sanford.[2]
The Town Council are to mark guide boards at
the junctions of all roads so as to show the names of said roads.
The Town Council shall prepare a complete record
of all streets and public highways, by districts. All data concerning
each thoroughfare, beginning with the laying out thereof, is to be
complete as far as records are available, including length, width,
sidewalks and sewers. All future repairs and improvements and votes
of the Town concerning the same, including expenditures, are to be
added to said record.
A.
No person or corporation, or his or its agents and
servants, shall break or dig up the ground in any street or public
way in the Town without obtaining a written permit from the Town Council
or Street Commissioners which shall state the regulations under which
the work shall be done, except the Town Council or Road Commissioners
in the lawful performance of their duties and those acting under their
orders, or the Water District in cases of emergency. Upon the completion
of said work the surface of the street or way shall be restored to
a condition satisfactory to the Town Council or Street Commissioners.
B.
Previous to the construction or repair of any street
or public way in the Town, the Town Council or the Street Commissioners
shall give reasonable notice to all persons or corporations, including
abutting owners, who or which are liable to be affected thereby, and
after the aforesaid work of construction or repair is complete, the
surface of said street or way shall not be broken up or disturbed
again except in case of reasonable necessity, and then under the conditions
set forth above.
C.
The penalty for any violation of this section shall
be the forfeiture and payment for each offense of a fine not exceeding
$20.
[Added 11-16-1982]
No street or way shall be accepted by the Town until such street or way meets the standards for street design and construction as set forth in Chapter 275, Subdivision of Land, of the Town Code which is in effect at the time such street or way is proposed for acceptance.
The Town Council shall have the power to build
a sidewalk from any given point to a sidewalk already built, where
the abutters owning 3/4 of the frontage on the street will agree to
pay for 1/2 of said sidewalk, and the amount due from those refusing
to pay shall be assessed and collected as taxes.
A.
All awnings, whether of cloth or fabric or other material,
projecting from a building over a public sidewalk or way shall not
project so that any part is nearer than 18 inches to the vertical
plane of the curbline, or closer than seven feet to the surface of
the sidewalk; shall be safely and permanently fixed to the building
and have no support from the sidewalk or way; shall be so constructed
that they may be swung, folded, or rolled back with the frame against
the building; and shall not have advertising matter on them other
than the name of the owner and the nature of the business conducted
there. All such rules shall apply to existing as well as new awnings,
and failure to observe them shall constitute a violation of this section.
B.
Unless another penalty is expressly provided by law,
every person convicted of a violation of this section shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $20.
[Amended 12-4-1979]
Whoever unreasonably deposits or dumps snow
or ice within the limits of any public way within the built-up sections
of the Town of Sanford, except upon the written authority of the municipal
officers, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $50.
Spitting on sidewalks in the Villages of Sanford
and Springvale is prohibited, and a fine of $1 shall be imposed upon
all guilty of said action.
[Amended 11-16-1993; 1-17-2006]
No person shall, in any part of a public street
in the Town of Sanford, carry on any trade or business, unless the
same is especially allowed by law, without a written permit from the
Town Clerk, Town Council or some person duly authorized to grant the
same. Whoever violates the provisions of this section shall be punished
by a fine as follows:
[Amended 12-4-1979]
No person shall play at the game of ball, nor
strike any ball with a bat, nor throw any balls, stones, bricks, clubs,
snowballs, frisbees or other missiles, in any public street, nor discharge
any firearms loaded with powder or other dangerous composition, save
in self-defense, in execution of the laws, or for the destruction
of some dangerous animal, in or upon any of the streets, lanes, or
public squares, or within 40 rods of any dwelling house of said Town,
on penalty of not less than $3 for each and every such offense.
If any person shall, in any street, sidewalk,
lane or public square, slide downhill with any hand sled or other
vehicle, or shall skate on any sidewalk in said Town, without permission
of the municipal officers, he shall forfeit and pay for each offense
not less than $1 nor more than $3.
The municipal officers may contract on such
terms and conditions as are in the best interest of the municipality,
including the grant of an exclusive franchise for a period not to
exceed 10 years, for the placing and maintenance of community antenna
television systems and appurtenances or parts thereof along public
ways and including contracts with operators of such systems which
receive the services of television signal transmission offered by
any public utilities using public ways for such transmission.
