Town of Dalton, MA
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2022-05-02
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Part I: Bylaws
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Chapter 284 Streets and Sidewalks
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Article I Obstructions
- Part I: Bylaws
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 7 Advertisements
- Ch 12 Affordable Housing
- Ch 18 Alcoholic Beverages and Marijuana
- Ch 23 Animals
- Ch 30 Assessors
- Ch 42 Buildings, Numbering of
- Ch 48 Burning, Open
- Ch 52 Business Registration
- Ch 62 Conservation Commission
- Ch 67 Council on Aging
- Ch 82 Elections
- Ch 85 Emergency Management
- Ch 88 False Alarms
- Ch 90 Farm and Forestry Commission
- Ch 92 Fees
- Ch 97 Finance Committee
- Ch 100 Finances
- Ch 131 Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination
- Ch 134 Junk and Secondhand Dealers
- Ch 145 Legal Affairs
- Ch 150 Licensing
- Ch 156 Littering
- Ch 169 Mobile Home Park Rent Control Board
- Ch 185 Noise
- Ch 195 Parks and Recreation Areas
- Ch 200 Peddling and Soliciting
- Ch 206 Personnel Policies
- Ch 211 Planning Board
- Ch 246 Seal
- Ch 252 Sewers
- Ch 270 Solid Waste
- Ch 280 Stormwater Management and Erosion Control
- Ch 284 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 284 Art I Obstructions
- § 284-1 License required.
- § 284-2 Walks around obstructions required.
- § 284-3 Permit required to place items on streets or sidewalks.
- § 284-4 Gates and doors.
- § 284-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 285 Stretch Energy Code
- Ch 290 (Reserved)
- Ch 296 Taxation
- Ch 300 Thin Film Plastic Bag Reduction
- Ch 309 Town Meetings
- Ch 316 Trespassing
- Ch 327 Vehicles, Removal of
- Ch 333 Vehicles, Unregistered or Junk
- Ch 340 Wetlands Protection
- Ch 350 Zoning
- Part II: Select Board Regulations
- Ch 401 Taxicabs
- Ch 402 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 403 Excavations
- Ch 403A Excavation and Trench Safety
- Ch 404 Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Policy
- Part III: Planning Board Regulations
- Ch 501 Subdivision of Land
- Ch 502 Scenic Roads
- Part IV: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 601 Communicable Diseases
- Ch 603 Sewers
- Ch 604 Solid Waste
- Ch 605 Tobacco Products
- Ch 606 Well Regulations
- Ch 607 Outdoor Woodburning Furnaces
- Part V: Additional Regulations
- Ch 701 Cemetery Rules and Regulations
- Ch 702 Hawkers, Peddlers and Transient Merchants
- Appendix
- Ch A801 General Law Acceptances and Special Acts
- Ch A802 Town Manager
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
No person, except members of the Select Board
and other officers of the Town in the lawful performance of their
duties and those acting under their order, shall obstruct any sidewalk
or street, or any part thereof, or break or dig the ground of the
same without first obtaining a written license from the Select Board
thereof; and the person so licensed shall put and at all times keep
a suitable railing around the parts of any sidewalk or street so obstructed
or dug up as long as the same shall be unsafe or inconvenient for
travellers, and shall always keep as many lighted lanterns fixed to
such railing or fence every night from twilight in the evening through
the whole night as the Select Board may direct.
Whenever any sidewalk becomes obstructed or
made impassable by reason of the erecting or repairing of any building
or the doing of any work, the person doing or causing the same to
be done shall place a good convenient walk around such obstructions.
No person shall erect any canopy, awning, shade,
shade frame nor place or maintain a sign, show bill, lantern, show
board, goods, wares or other articles so as to rest on, project into
or overhang any street or sidewalk except in accordance with a permit
from the Select Board.
No owner, tenant or other person having control
of any building or premises shall permit a gate or door thereof to
swing open across any part of a sidewalk or street.
Whoever shall offend against or fail to comply with any of the provisions of this bylaw shall forfeit and pay a penalty of not more than $300 for each offense or be subject to noncriminal disposition of the offense pursuant to Chapter 1.
