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[HISTORY: Adopted by the Town Meeting of the Town of Rockport 3-22-1997 (Ch. 14B of the 1997 Code of By-laws). Amendments noted where applicable.]
No person shall throw, cast, hand out or distribute, or cause or permit to be thrown, cast, handed out or distributed any handbills, fliers, menus, or other advertising matter whatsoever, in or upon any public street or public place within the Town of Rockport. Nothing herein shall be deemed to prohibit the lawful distribution of anything other than commercial and business advertising matter.
No unauthorized person shall place, or cause to be placed, on any public sidewalk, street or highway or upon any of the common lands of the Town any gravel, dirt, wood, lumber, buildings, vehicles, boxes, barrels, stones, coal ashes, rubbish or filth of any kind, noxious or refuse liquid or solid matter or substance or any other things. No person shall throw or place, or cause to be thrown or placed, in any street or any sidewalk of the Town any nails, spikes, screws, glass or other similar articles. No person shall willfully tip over or upset the contents of any box or barrel containing ashes, house dirt, or rubbish of any kind upon any sidewalk or into any public way of the Town, or in or upon coastal or inland wasters, except ashes for burial.
No person shall deposit household trash, garbage or waste materials in litter barrels and collection devices on any public way, public park or area to which the public has a right of access.