[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Walpole as Article XIII, Secs. 1, 2, 7, 8 and 18, of the 1973 General Bylaws, as updated through 2002. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
GENERAL REFERENCES
Animals running at large — See Ch. 252.
Enforcement by noncriminal disposition — See Ch. 295, Art. II.
Nuisances — See Ch. 410.
Repair of private ways — See Ch. 433.
Scenic roads — See Ch. 452.
Street names and numbers — See Ch. 505.
Vehicles and traffic — See Ch. 537.
[Amended 5-11-2003 SATM, Art. 35; 5-11-2005 SATM, Art. 42]
No person shall, by any means or in any manner, willfully frighten any horse or play at any game which a ball or any other object is used, fly any kites, or throw stones, missiles, discharge paint balls or other objects in any street, public way or sidewalk. Nor shall any person throw, drop or allow or cause to fall any stone, missile or other object from any bridge, upon a street, public way or sidewalk; or shoot with bows and arrows upon, or cause or allow an arrow to fall within a street, public way or sidewalk.
[Amended 10-21-2019 FATM, Art. 20]
No person shall skate or coast upon any sled upon any sidewalk or upon any street or public place except at such times and upon such streets or places as the Select Board members and the Chief of Police may, by public notice, designate for such purpose.
No person shall throw or drop in or upon any public footpath, sidewalk, way, street or place, or private way to which the public has a right of access as invitees, any piece of wire, metal, mineral, glass or other material, including the discharge of water, ice or snow that might or would be a source of nuisance, as defined in the Town's Nuisance Bylaw, Article X Health Bylaws[1] or danger to anyone lawfully passing over or using the same; or that may prove injurious in any respect to the hooves of animals, the tire of bicycles or the rubber tires of automobiles and other vehicles or the feet of people.
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Editor's Note: The Town's Nuisance Bylaw, originally Sec. 3 of Article X of the 1973 General Bylaws, was repealed 5-11-2005 SATM, Art. 34.
No person shall deposit papers or other matter on the streets or sidewalks of the Town, or shall team[1] manure, hay, rubbish, garbage, ashes, liquid or other materials in such a manner as to litter, pollute, or injure the streets and sidewalks of the Town; nor shall any person throw or deposit in any street or sidewalk dirt, rubbish, garbage or other refuse of any kind except in a manner provided by the Board of Health, or by State or Federal Regulation.
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Editor's Note: So in original.
No person shall deposit snow onto a sidewalk that has been plowed or deposit leaves from private property onto streets or sidewalks of the Town.
No person, other than a duly authorized officer or employee of the Town of Walpole shall dig a trench or lay a pipe in or in any way disturb the earth or materials on, in, or under any street or public way without a permit in writing given by the Town Administrator upon application by said person made to the Town Administrator and whenever such permit is so issued shall, whenever a pipe, drain or any other structure is placed in, along or under such street or public way, file with said Town Administrator a plan of the same showing location and elevation of such pipe, drain or other structure, said plan to be of such size and standard as said Town Administrator may require.
For the purpose of this chapter, the penalty for violation of any provision of this bylaw shall be a fine of not more than $200 for each day said violation exists, unless otherwise specified in the General Laws of the Commonwealth.