New Ashford By Laws Chapter IX Streets and Highways and XII Parking

Chapter IX Streets and Highways

Section 4. No person, unless he/she is the holder of a permit issued by the Board of Selectmen of these By-laws, and except in accordance with the terms and conditions of such permit, shall place an obstruction in any street or on any sidewalk within the Town and allow it to remain there, or allow shrubbery to overhang roadways so as to impede free passage of pedestrians and snow removal equipment.

Section 5. No person traveling on a street within the Town shall break or injure the surface thereof by the use of brakes, chains or other mechanism so applied to the wheels of any vehicle under his/her control as to cause said wheels to slide, slip or coast on said way.

Section 7. No person, other than an employee in the service of the Town, shall pile, push or plow snow onto a Town way so as to impede the flow of traffic on such way.

Section 9. Any vehicle on a public way that interferes with the work of removing or plowing snow or removing ice therefrom may be removed with Massachusetts State Police approval to a convenient place and stored by or under the direction of the Director of Public Works or his/her designee. The Director of Public Works shall forthwith notify the Massachusetts State Police of any such vehicle and of the place to which it has been removed and stored.

Chapter XII Parking

Section 1. No person shall allow, permit or suffer any vehicle registered in his/her name, other than one acting in an emergency, to be parked on any street for a period of time no longer than one (1) hour between the hours of 11 p.m. and 6 a.m. of any day from November 1 through April 1, or any other time the Road Commissioner deems appropriate for snow removal Any vehicle parked on a public way which interferes with the work of removing snow or ice may be removed at the owner’s expense as determined by the Road Commissioner or his/her designee.