[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Dalton. Amendments
noted where applicable.]
No person shall throw, sweep, rake, blow, or deposit litter or rubbish
in or upon any street, sidewalk, treebelt or other public place within the
Town, except in public receptacles for that purpose, authorized private receptacles
for collection or in an official Town disposal area.
Persons placing litter in public receptacles shall do so in such a manner
so as to prevent such litter from being carried or deposited by the elements
on any streets, sidewalks or other public place or upon private property.
No person shall sweep, rake, throw, or blow into or deposit into any
gutter, street or other public place within the Town the accumulation of litter
or rubbish from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk,
driveway or property. Persons owning or occupying property shall keep the
sidewalk and/or treebelt abutting their premises free of litter or rubbish.
No person owning or occupying a place of business shall sweep into or
deposit in any gutter, street or other public place within the Town the accumulation
of litter from any building or lot or from any public or private sidewalk,
driveway or property. Persons owning or occupying a place of business within
the Town shall keep the sidewalk and/or treebelt abutting their business free
of litter.
No person, while a driver or passenger in a vehicle, shall throw or
deposit litter upon any street or any other public place within the Town or
upon private premises.
A.
No person shall drive or move any truck or other vehicle
within the Town unless such vehicle is so constructed or loaded so as to prevent
any such load, contents or litter thereof from being blown or deposited upon
any street, alley or other public place or upon any private premises.
B.
No person shall drive or move any vehicle or truck within
said Town, the wheels or tires of which carry onto or deposit in any street,
alley or other public place any mud, dirt, sticky substances, litter or foreign
matter of any kind.
A.
No person shall throw or deposit or cause to have thrown
or deposited litter of any kind within any park or on a terrace, triangle,
traffic island, circle or dingle under control of the Parks Department
of the Town except in public receptacles provided for the purpose thereof,
and it shall be deposited in such manner that the litter will be prevented
from being carried and/or deposited by the elements upon any part of said
parks or the aforementioned public properties.
B.
No leaves, tree branches, grass or evergreen clippings,
winter sand and/or sand and salt mixture, rocks, litter, rubbish, garbage
or any other material shall be brought to and deposited in any manner on any
park property.
C.
No person, herein designated as a firm, individual, corporation,
organization, employee, agent or servant of any kind, shall deposit or cause
to have deposited on public property or in public receptacles within the confines
of any parks or public property by any such person any litter, other than
that obtained as a result of use in said park or said public property.
No person shall throw or deposit, abandon or leave or cause to have
thrown or deposited, abandoned or left along the shoreline or abutting property
of any lake, river, stream or like body of water situated within or bounding
on the limits of the Town or in any fountain or like structure situated within
said Town any automobiles or parts thereof building materials, litter, garbage,
rubbish or material of any kind.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to the distribution of
mail in the United States, nor to newspapers, except that newspapers shall
be placed on private property in such a manner as to prevent their being carried
or deposited by the elements upon any sidewalk, street, alley or other public
place or upon any private property.
No person in any aircraft shall throw out, drop or deposit or cause
to have thrown out, dropped or deposited within the Town any litter, handbills
or any other materials.
No person shall post or affix any notice, poster, handbill or other
paper or device calculated to attract the attention of the public to any traffic
device or lamppost, public utility pole or public shade tree or upon any structure
or building within any public way or other public property, except as may
be authorized or required by law.
No person shall throw or deposit or cause to have thrown or deposited
any litter on any occupied private property within the Town, whether owned
by such person or not, except that the owner or person in control of private
property may maintain authorized private receptacles for collection in such
a manner that litter will be prevented from being carried or deposited by
the elements upon any street, sidewalk, alley or other public place or upon
any private property. The owner or person in control of any private property
shall, at all times, maintain the premises free from litter.
No person shall throw or deposit or cause to have thrown or deposited
any litter on any open or vacant property within the Town, whether owned by
such person or not. The owner or person in control of any such vacant property
shall at all times maintain the premises free from litter.
Violations of this bylaw shall be punished pursuant to MGL c. 40, §§ 21 and 21D, by a fine of up to $300 or each offense or be subject to noncriminal disposition of the offense pursuant to Chapter 1.
