The Keene City Council has a whole code of ordinances that it utilizes to govern authorize violence against its subjects. Whether it is prohibiting someone from peacefully drinking an alcoholic beverage on public property or making it illegal for its own employees to remove snow from the roadways in the winter… the Keene City Council carefully crafts its “master plan.”
Yes, you read me correctly. A Free Keene forum reader found an ordinance enacted by the Keene City Council making it illegal for anyone to plow snow off of its roadways in the winter. No exceptions are made for government employees and it looks like you can get slammed with a $1000 fine for doing it!
Sec. 82-67. Placement of snow and ice.
No person shall shovel, plow, put or place or cause to be shoveled, plowed, put or placed,within the traveled portion of any sidewalk, street, lane, alley, or highway, any snow or ice. However, snow and ice may be banked on the sides of public roadways incident to the cleaning thereof or banked on the sides of sidewalks incident to the cleaning thereof. The penalty for violation of this section shall be as provided in section 1-15 et seq.
Now that surely is a creative way for a municipal government entity to generate more revenue: hire people to plow the road in the winter and then fine them for doing it. 😛
