Town of Walpole, MA
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2023-01-04
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Division 2: General Bylaws
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Part III: Regulatory Bylaws
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Chapter 523 Town Property
- Division 1: Charter
- Ch C Charter
- Division 2: General Bylaws
- Part I: Administrative Bylaws
- Ch 1 General Provisions
- Ch 5 Animal Control Officer
- Ch 13 Bonds
- Ch 17 Building Committee, Permanent
- Ch 22 (Reserved)
- Ch 34 Compensation, Additional
- Ch 39 Contracts and Purchasing
- Ch 45 Counsel, Town
- Ch 88 Finance Committee
- Ch 93 Fiscal Year
- Ch 125 Meetings of Town Boards
- Ch 177 Records and Reports
- Ch 182 Recreation Committee
- Ch 187 Revolving Funds
- Ch 195 Select Board
- Ch 202 Surplus, Disposal of
- Ch 210 Town Collector
- Ch 219 Town Meetings
- Part II: Personnel Bylaws
- Ch 230 Personnel
- Part III: Regulatory Bylaws
- Ch 241 Alarm Systems
- Ch 246 Alcoholic Beverages
- Ch 252 Animals
- Ch 277 Charges and Bills, Payment of
- Ch 289 Disorderly Conduct
- Ch 295 Enforcement; Noncriminal Disposition
- Ch 308 Fees
- Ch 312 Fertilizers
- Ch 318 Firearms and Weapons
- Ch 323 Fire Equipment
- Ch 327 Fire Prevention
- Ch 336 Graffiti
- Ch 349 Historic Structures
- Ch 361 Junk Dealers and Collectors
- Ch 378 Licenses and Permits
- Ch 382 Loitering
- Ch 386 Marijuana, Public Use of
- Ch 393 Motels
- Ch 404 Noise
- Ch 410 Nuisances
- Ch 433 Private Ways, Repair of
- Ch 435 Property Maintenance
- Ch 448 Safety Equipment
- Ch 452 Scenic Roads
- Ch 459 Secondhand Vehicle Dealers
- Ch 465 Sewer Bylaws
- Ch 468 Social Host Responsibility
- Ch 476 Soliciting and Canvassing
- Ch 480 Solid Waste
- Ch 487 Stink Bombs and Other Vapor-Emitting Goods
- Ch 492 Storage Tanks
- Ch 499 Stormwater Management
- Ch 505 Street Names and Numbers
- Ch 510 Streets and Sidewalks
- Ch 516 Taxation
- Ch 523 Town Property
- § 523-1 Damage to property owned by Town.
- § 523-2 Trespassing.
- § 523-3 Protection of water and sanitary sewers.
- § 523-4 Lighting equipment.
- § 523-5 Violations and penalties.
- Ch 537 Vehicles and Traffic
- Ch 542 Vehicles, Off-Road
- Ch 548 Vehicles, Storage of
- Ch 554 Water Use Restrictions
- Ch 561 Wetlands Protection
- Division 3: Zoning Bylaws
- Ch 575 Zoning
- Division 4: Board of Health Regulations
- Ch 581 Adoption of Codified Regulations
- Ch 587 Animal Control
- Ch 598 Body Art Establishments
- Ch 603 Body Piercing
- Ch 639 Fees
- Ch 644 Floor Drains
- Ch 650 Food Service Establishments
- Ch 661 Groundwater Monitoring Programs
- Ch 665 Groundwater Protection
- Ch 672 Hazardous Waste Cleanup
- Ch 691 Lifeguards
- Ch 703 Massage Establishments
- Ch 711 Mercury Disposal
- Ch 760 Recombinant Dna; Biosafety Level 3 Materials
- Ch 767 Septic Systems
- Ch 774 Smoking
- Ch 779 Solid Waste
- Ch 786 Stink Bombs, Sale of
- Ch 793 Tobacco Control
- Ch 795 Tobacco Sales
- Ch 799 Toxic and Hazardous Materials Control
- Ch 804 Underground Storage of Fuel and Chemicals
- Ch 816 Wells, Private
- Division 5: Town Meeting Rules of Conduct
- Ch 825 Rules Applying to the Conduct of Representative Town Meetings
- Appendix
- Ch A999 Acceptances of General Laws
- Derivation Table
- Ch DT Derivation Table
- Disposition List
- Ch DL Disposition List
[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Walpole as Article
XIII, Secs. 10, 12, 15 and 16, of the 1973 General Bylaws, as updated through
2002. Subsequent amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall commit any willful, malicious or wanton injury or damage
to any property owned by the Town of Walpole, including all school buildings
and the contents therein; all trees, bushes, shrubs and other greenery upon
or within the public lands of the Town; or buildings and all structures and
containers authorized to be upon those grounds; and all walls, fences and
other barriers owned by the Town and constructed for the purpose of protecting
or enclosing or improving land, shrubbery or structures. No person shall injure,
mark with any substance or in any other way disturb the normal condition of
any gravestone, marker, monument, other structure of decoration within any
cemetery or burial place, or other public place.
No unauthorized person shall remain upon the grounds of any public building
or within a public building within the Town, between dusk and dawn unless
they are using the facilities during an authorized public building event.
Any person found to be committing a trespass hereunder pursuant to MGL c.
266, § 120, and who refuses to move from the grounds of a public
building or from within a public building when requested by a police officer
may be detained without a warrant by a police officer as prescribed under
MGL c. 266, § 120.
[Amended 5-11-2005 SATM, Art. 44]
A.
No person shall, without proper authority or permission
from the Board of Sewer and Water Commissioners or their agent, intermeddle
with or willfully break or injure any water line, Town drain, sanitary sewer
or appurtenances.
B.
No person shall deposit any foreign solid or liquid material
so as to endanger any Town drains, sanitary sewers or water supply.
No person shall, without proper authority, intermeddle with or willfully
break any arc lamp, globe or incandescent lamp, or any insulators, or attachments
used to carry wires within the limits of any public way or place in the Town.
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.
