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TOWN OF BERWICK BYLAW
STREETS
Superintendent
57.
It shall be the duty of the Superintendent of Streets under the direction and
control of the Committee of Streets and Sewers, to attend to the laying out,
widening, elevations and repairs of the streets of the Town, the sweeping,
cleaning, and dust laying of the same, the clearing away of the snow in the
following priority, that is to say, snow shall be cleaned,
(1)
From in front of the doors of the fire station
(2)
The approaches and private roadways to the Western Kings Memorial
Hospital
(3)
Public Streets
(4)
Man holes, cleaning of ditches and drains, the care of all trees bordering
the right-of-way of the Town, and the making, repairing and improving of
the bridges, drains, sewers, pavements, and sidewalks within the same and
to give notice to the Mayor or Chairman of the Streets Committee of any
nuisance, obstructions or encroachments thereon or of any injury thereto
or of any breach of the laws or of the by-laws relating thereto and to do all
such other acts and things as shall be required of him by law or by the by-
laws of the Town or may be ordered by the Town Council or Committee
on Streets.
58.
The Superintendent shall keep such accounts of his proceedings as shall be
ordered by the Council or Committee on Streets and furnish accounts
properly vouched whenever required to do so by the Council or
Committee on Streets.
59.
No gate shall be hung or constructed to open or swing outwardly across a
sidewalk or any part thereof.
60.
No team shall be left unattended in any of the streets of the Town unless
properly hitched and secured. Teams standing on the streets of the Town
shall be in line with and close to the edge or curbing of the sidewalk so as
to obstruct the street as little as possible.
61.
All ornamental trees within the limits of any of the streets within the Town
shall be under the care and custody of the Street Committee. No person
shall break, bark, remove, root up or otherwise cut, destroy or damage the
whole or any part of any tree, sapling or shrub planted for ornament or left
growing in any street or highway or in any public spare or park of the
Town without the permission of the Committee on Streets.
62.
No person shall post, stick, stamp, paint or otherwise affix or cause to be
posted, stuck, stamped, painted or otherwise affixed any bill, poster,
notice, advertisement or any indecent or immoral placard, picture,
drawing, writing or printing, on any property of the Town nor on any tree
within the limits of any of the streets, squares or parks of the town,
without the permission of the Committee on Streets.
63.
No person shall erect, build, put up, place, or permit or suffer to remain on
or over any sidewalk or street in front of the premises owned or occupied
by him for which he is agent, any sign post or sign board or other sign or
thing of any kind which projects more than eight feet over the sidewalk or
is less than eight feet above the sidewalk.
History of this Bylaw:
Enacted -
July 9, 1963