No person in a state of nudity shall bathe in any pond or stream
or any place exposed to public view within the city limits.
(a)
No person under the age of 16 years shall be or remain upon any street
after 10:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m. unless accompanied by a parent,
guardian or other person having legal custody of such minor or unless
such minor is in the performance of an errand or duty directed by
a parent, guardian or other person having legal custody of such minor,
or unless the lawful employment of such minor makes it necessary for
him to be upon the street during such hours; provided, however, that
the foregoing exceptions shall not be applicable when such minor is
playing or unnecessarily loitering in or upon the street, whether
he is alone or accompanied by another person.
(b)
No parent, guardian or other person having legal custody of a person
under the age of 16 years shall permit such minor to be in or upon
any street after 10:00 p.m. or before 6:00 a.m. except as provided
hereinabove.
(c)
No person under the age of 16 years arrested under the provisions
of this section shall be placed or held in confinement until the parent,
guardian or other person having legal custody shall have been notified
and shall have refused to be responsible for the observance of the
provisions of this section by such minor.
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted June 14, 1988 (No.
9625-4), deleted former § 14-3, which pertained to throwing
dead animals, etc. into streams and other bodies of water. Former
§ 14-3 did not contain history notation and is presumed
derived from the original codification.
[Ord. of 10-26-1976, §§ 1, 2; Ord. of 2-9-1999]
(a)
No person shall drink or possess in an open or partially consumed
container any alcoholic beverages as defined in MGL c. 138, § 1,
while on, in or upon any public way or public place to which the public
has a right of access, excluding premises licensed under said Chapter
138, or in, on or upon private lands without the consent of the owner
or person in control thereof.
[Ord. of 4-10-2018]
In accordance with MGL c. 94G, § 1(c), no person shall
smoke, ingest or otherwise use or consume marijuana or marijuana products
(as defined in MGL c. 94, § 1) while on, in or upon any
public way, public place to which the public has a right of access,
where tobacco consumption is prohibited, or private lands without
the consent of the owner or person in control thereof.
[Ord. of 7-28-1981][1]
No person shall engage in fighting or threatening, or in violent
or tumultuous behavior, or create a hazardous or physically offensive
condition by any act which serves no legitimate purpose of the actor.
A person who engages in such conduct with the purpose to cause public
inconvenience, annoyance, alarm or recklessly creating a risk thereof
shall be guilty of disorderly conduct. "Public" as used herein shall
mean affecting or likely to affect persons in a place to which the
public or a substantial group has access.
[Ord. of 7-22-1986; Ord. of 2-9-1999]
(a)
No person shall willfully or intentionally permit or cause a noise
which is objectionable due to volume, intermittence, beat frequency
or shrillness to be transmitted outside the property where it originates,
and in no case shall such noise exceed 65 decibels at any property
line.
No person shall discharge any gun, pistol or other firearm within
the settled section of the city, provided that this section shall
not apply to the use of such weapons in the lawful defense of the
person, family or property or in the performance of any duty required
by law, nor to the firing of a salute or cannon or artillery by permission
of the City Manager, nor to public or private shooting galleries which
have been inspected and approved by the Chief of Police (Commissioner
of Public Safety).[1]
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted June 14, 1988 (No.
9625-4), deleted former § 14-6, which pertained to the distribution
of handbills. Former § 14-6 did not contain history notation
and is presumed derived from the original codification.
No person shall mar, injure or deface any public building, police
signal box, fire alarm signal box or other city property or attach
any handbill, advertisement or drawing thereto.[1]
No person shall loiter upon the steps of or on any other projection
from any church, hotel, hall or public building, or in any hall, space
or way leading thereto, so as to incommode or obstruct the passage
to or from such church, hall, hotel or building. Every person so loitering
shall, when so ordered by a member of the Police Department (division),
watchman, owner, agent or other person having charge of such church,
hotel, hall or other public building, immediately depart therefrom.
[5-25-1965]
(a)
The word "obstruct," as used in this section, shall mean to stand
or loiter in or on a public sidewalk [in a manner] that hinders, impedes
or blocks a way of passage or prevents progress thereon when there
is no alternative course of travel available in or on such sidewalk
being used by travelers or pedestrians.
(b)
No person shall stand or loiter on a public sidewalk who, together
with another or others, obstructs the free passage of travelers or
pedestrians thereon; and no person shall hinder, impede or block the
free and open ingress and egress to and from any stairway, doorway,
vestibule or passageway leading to any business enterprise or building,
after being requested by a member of the Police Department (division)
or any person to permit travelers and pedestrians unobstructed passage
on such sidewalk or to and from any business enterprise or building.
(c)
No person shall jostle or roughly crowd members of the public on
a public sidewalk.
[3-22-1966; 4-12-1966]
No person shall, in the nighttime, be in or about public or
private buildings or premises within the city where he has no right
or permission to be, under suspicious circumstances, and without being
able to give satisfactory account of the same.
No person, except an officer of the law in the performance of
his duties, shall enter upon the premises of another or upon any public
property with the intention of peeping into the windows of a house
or other building or of spying in any manner upon any person or persons
therein.
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted May 26, 1987 (No. 95221-1), deleted former §§ 14-9.1 and 14-9.2, which pertained to the restraint of dogs, as derived from Ords. of 6-27-1966; 8-10-1976, §§ 1, 2; 7-11-1978; 3-23-1982 and 11-13-1984. Provisions regarding the regulation of dogs are currently set out in Ch. 27 of this Code.
[1]
Editor's Note: An ordinance adopted June 14, 1988 (No.
9625-4), deleted former § 14-10, which pertained to spitting
in public places. Former § 14-10 did not contain history
notation and is presumed derived from the original codification.
[Ord. of 5-13-1997]
No person under the age of 18 may purchase or possess a cigarette,
chewing tobacco, snuff, cigar or any tobacco in any forms except in
the event of a Board of Health Compliance Check. Any person who violates
this section may be subject to the confiscation of the tobacco product
by the police, who may also notify the violator's parent(s) or
legal guardian(s) of the violation.