[HISTORY: Adopted as indicated in article histories. Amendments noted
where applicable.]
[Adopted as Sections 6 through 11 and 13 of Article VI of the 7-10-1964
Compilation of Bylaws]
No person shall make any indecent figures or write any obscene words
upon or deface by marks in any manner any fence, building, sidewalk, crosswalk
or ledge in the Town.
No person shall willfully deface or injure any public playground, planting
space, flower bed, grass border, guidepost or guide-board, official sign,
post or signalling device for the direction of traffic, lamppost or lamp or
lantern or any building, fence or monument or other thing situated, erected
or made for the use or ornament of the Town.
No person shall throw stones, snowballs, sticks or other
missiles, kick a football, play ball or play at any game at which a ball of
any kind is used or fly kites on any public way within the Town.
No person shall behave in a rude, disorderly, insolent or insulting
manner or make any indecent noise, sound, or gesture in any public way or
near any dwelling house in the Town.
No person shall use any indecent, profane, insolent, or insulting language,
make any threats, or use any other language tending to create a breach of
the peace in any public way or other public place in the Town or within audible
distance of any dwelling house or other building therein.
No person shall be or remain upon any sidewalk or upon any doorstep,
portico or other projection of any house or building not owned by such person,
to the annoyance or disturbance of any person, nor shall persons congregate
and loaf upon any such sidewalk or in any public way or other place in the
Town.
No person shall stand within the limits of any public way in the Town
for the purpose of soliciting a ride from the operator of any vehicle.
[Adopted 4-8-1981 ATM, Art. 36, Section B]
No person shall in violation of MGL c. 272, § 59, or any amendments
thereto, linger, continue to sit, stand or occupy any part of the public street,
public place, public building or any property not his own or under his control,
so as to obstruct or impede the free passage of any other person, after being
instructed or directed by a police officer to move on.
Any person refusing to comply with this article, after he shall be requested
to do so by a police officer, shall be subject to arrest.
If the identity of such person is unknown to the police officer, such
person may be arrested without a warrant and detained until his identity is
ascertained, unless a warrant has been issued against him, or he may be further
detained until he can be taken before a court having jurisdiction of the offense.
The penalty for any violation of the foregoing sections of this article
shall be a fine of not more than twenty-five dollars ($25.).
