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Approved January 5, 1966
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CHAPTER 14
CARE OF STREETS
1.
In this By-law or Chapter, the expression "Committee" means the Street Committee.
2.
The public streets, lanes, highways, and thoroughfares of the town, subject to the ultimate
decision of the Council, shall be under the care, supervision and direction of the Street
Committee.
3.
All trees within the limits of any of the streets within the Town of Bridgewater shall be under
the care and custody of the Street Committee, and if any person shall break, bark, remove,
root up or otherwise destroy or damage the whole of any part of any tree, sapling or shrub,
planted for ornament or growing on any street or highway in the town, without the
permission of the Committee, he shall be liable to the penalty not exceeding ten dollars for
every tree, sapling or shrub so by him broken, barked or rooted up or otherwise destroyed
or damaged in whole or in part, and in default of payment forthwith on summary conviction,
shall be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding one month for each such penalty.
Any person found committing a breach of this section is liable to arrest on view by any
Peace Officer.
4.
Any person proposing to set out any shade or ornamental trees on any street, road, lane,
sidewalk or other public place in the town, shall apply to the Street Committee for the
location of the same.
5.
It shall not be lawful for any person or persons to post, stick, paint, stamp, or otherwise affix
or cause to be posted, stuck, stamped, painted, or otherwise affixed any bill, poster, notice
or advertisement on any property of the town or on any telephone, electric light or other
post or pole, fence or town building standing on or near the public street in the town without
permission of the Street Committee, nor on any tree within the limits of any of the streets
of the town under a penalty not exceeding ten dollars for each offence, or in default of
immediate payment to imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days in the County
Gaol at Lunenburg.
6.
No person shall erect any verandah, bay window, porch, sign, awning, fence or other
projection, over any sidewalk or street in the town without making application in writing to
the Committee on Streets, and obtaining permission thereof, subject to such conditions as
the Committee may impose. Every such projection now or hereafter erected over any
sidewalk or street shall be removed by the owner or lessee of the premises out from which
the same is built or projects within forty-eight hours after notice from the Committee on
Streets so to do and in default of such order being complied with, the Committee on Streets
may remove the same at the expense of such owner or lessee, who shall be liable therefor
as a private debt to the Town and such owner or lessee shall also be liable to a penalty for
each offence against this section not exceeding five dollars and in default of payment
thereof, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding ten days.
7.
Any person desirous of moving a building upon or over any of the public streets of the town
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shall make application for such privilege, in writing, addressed to the Mayor and Street
Committee, and shall state the place from and the place to which it is proposed to move
such building and the estimated number of days that the same will be upon such streets,
and such application shall be accompanied by a deposit of a sum equal to fees chargeable
on granting of the privilege of such removal based on the said estimated number of days
mentioned in such application which fees for each day or portion of a day which such
building shall be upon any public street shall be as follows: Not less than three dollars and
not more then ten dollars in the discretion of the Council.
8.
Upon receiving such application and deposit, and upon the applicant entering into a bond
to the Town with one or more sureties to be approved by the Chairman of the Street
Committee in the sum of $500.000, the Town Clerk shall issue to such applicant a permit
to move said building over the street or streets in such application mentioned during the
period estimated therein.
9.
Such permit may be extended by the Mayor or Street Committee for such number of days
as the applicant may find necessary beyond those mentioned therein by endorsing such
extension on such original permit and signing the same; provided, however, that such
applicant shall first deposit a further sum with the Town Clerk equal to the fees payable in
respect of the number of days additional for which he required such extension based upon
the tariff chargeable under Section 7 of this Chapter as though the extended number of
days had been added to and included in the original application.
SNOW LIMITS
10.
Every person who owns or occupies a house, shop, store, office, hall, stable, garage, or
other building or parcel of land situate on, adjacent to or adjoining that part of the town of
Bridgewater on which there is laid permanent concrete sidewalks, shall within four hours
of the cessation of every fall of snow, clear away all snow, ice, slush or dirt from off that
portion of the sidewalk or foot path which passes immediately in front of, or is contiguous
to, the side of the street whereon such person's building, land or premises is situated or to
which the same is adjacent as aforesaid, provided always that should fall of snow not have
ceased before two o'clock a.m. that it shall be sufficient if such snow, ice, slush, or dirt be
cleared away on or before ten o'clock in the forenoon of the following day.
11.
Any person who shall neglect to comply with the provisions of the next preceding section
shall be liable to a penalty not exceeding five dollars for each offence, and in default of
payment, may be imprisoned for a period not exceeding twenty days, and if such neglect
shall continue for twenty-four hours after the snow has ceased falling, the Street Committee
shall cause said sidewalks or foot path to be cleared at the expense of the owner, occupier
or person in charge or control, and such be recovered and collected in like manner as other
town rates are recovered and collected.
12.
Every owner, or occupier of any house, barn, stable, garage, shop, store, office or other
building whatever built close to the line of any public street, lane or thoroughfare of the town
shall at all times during the winter season keep the roof, eaves, and other projections
thereof clear from snow and ice.
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13.
No person shall permit icicles to accumulate on the eaves or gutters of any building owned
or occupied by him so as to become dangerous to persons passing on the streets.
14.
Any person violating the provisions of the next two preceding sections shall for each offence
be liable to summary conviction to pay a sum not exceeding five dollars, and in default of
immediate payment shall be imprisoned for a period not exceeding twenty days. Every
twenty-four hours the snow or ice accumulates on the roof, eaves or other projections of
any such building and is allowed to remain after notice by the Committee on Streets to the
owner or occupier thereof requiring its removal shall constitute a distinct and separate
offence against this by-law.
15.
No person shall dump, unload, or deposit or move any coal or heavy article upon the
concrete or asphalt sidewalks unless such sidewalk has been first protected by boards, not
less than one inch thick, and placed close together over the surface where such coal or
heavy article is to be deposited.
16.
Every occupier of any premises shall keep the sidewalk and gutter in front of the eaves free
from dirt and nuisance of every description.
17.
No person shall distribute any handbills, or other papers by scattering the same on the
street.
18.
No person shall cart or transport in any way on any street, any sand, earth, dirt, manure,
hay, straw or rubbish or any loose fluid or semi-fluid in such a manner that any portion of
the same may be spilled or scattered on the street.
19.
No person shall on any street raise or hoist any goods into any door or window of an upper
story or throw down any goods from such door or windows.
20.
No person shall throw any shingles, boards, slates, sand, gravel, tar or other material
whatsoever from any roof or scaffolding upon any street, but the same shall be lowered in
chutes or by tackles in such a manner as not to affect the safety and convenience of the
public.
21.
Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of the provisions set forth in this
by-law, and for which no penalty has been provided shall be liable on summary conviction
to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and in default of payment forthwith, to
imprisonment for a period not exceeding twenty days.
22.
No person shall
(a)
injure, or remove any portion of any catchpit, receiving basin, covering flag,
manhole, vent, shaft, grating or any other part of any sewer or drain, or
(b)
obstruct the flow of water in any sewer or drain, which forms a deposit therein, or
has a tendency to obstruct the same or discharge any stream into any sewer.
23.
Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with this section shall be liable, on
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summary conviction, to a penalty not exceeding twenty dollars, and in default of payment
forthwith, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding thirty days.
OBSTRUCTION ON STREETS
24.
Except as by the Towns' Act or by this by-law otherwise provided, no person shall place or
cause to be placed any encumbrance upon any street whereby the public are prevented
from the free and uninterrupted use of the same.
25.
The Street Committee may temporarily close any street, or part thereof, while any work is
being done thereon, or where it is advisable for other reasons to close the same, and may
for that purpose erect bars or other impediments to traffic.
26.
When the Committee puts up any bars or fence to close any street for any purpose, no
person shall interfere with the same or travel or attempt to travel or drive any vehicle along
the street so closed without permission of the Chairman of the Street Committee, and every
person who so travels or attempts to travel or drives any vehicle shall be liable to a penalty
hereinafter provided.
27.
Any person may, by permission of the Street Committee, place on any street, materials for
buildings and erect an enclosure to protect the same, and may continue such enclosure for
such period as the Committee directs. Every person placing such material or erecting such
enclosure without permission or otherwise that as directed or continuing the same for a
longer period than herein prescribed, or after being directed to remove the same, shall be
liable to a penalty as hereinafter provided.
28.
Every person receiving a permit to occupy a part of the street for building purposes, or for
repairing any building or making any excavation, or for any other purpose, shall provide a
safe and convenient passage around, under or over the obstruction so placed, and shall
be responsible for any injury sustained by any person in consequence of this neglect to do
so.
29.
No person shall place upon any street for sale or show any goods, wares, or merchandise,
or any signboard or advertising board.
30.
No person shall place or suspend or expose from any building any goods, wares or
merchandise so that the same extend from the wall of such building more than six inches
toward or into any street.
31.
No person shall place on any street any articles or permit the same to remain there so as
to obstruct the free passage of such street for a longer period than is necessary to remove
the same to or from any building or premises fronting such street.
32.
Every person who contravenes or fails to comply with any of these sections dealing with
"Obstruction of Streets" shall be liable on summary conviction to a penalty not exceeding
twenty dollars, and in default, to imprisonment not exceeding twenty days.