Every town writes its own rules, and Dalton's live in its municipal code — 62 chapters covering day-to-day questions like fences, parking, pets, permits and property upkeep. Below is the full map of what the code covers.
Ask Dalton's code a questionWhat's in the Dalton code
- Ch 1 — General Provisions (§ 1-1 – § 1-7.1)
- Ch 7 — Advertisements (§ 7-1 – § 7-2)
- Ch 12 — Affordable Housing (§ 12-1)
- Ch 18 — Alcoholic Beverages and Marijuana (§ 18-1 – § 18-6)
- Ch 23 — Animals (§ 23-1 – § 23-14)
- Ch 30 — Assessors (§ 30-1)
- Ch 42 — Buildings, Numbering of (§ 42-1 – § 42-5)
- Ch 48 — Burning, Open (§ 48-1 – § 48-2)
- Ch 52 — Business Registration (§ 52-1 – § 52-2)
- Ch 59 — Capital Planning Committee (§ 59-1 – § 59-4)
- Ch 62 — Conservation Commission (§ 62-1)
- Ch 67 — Council on Aging (§ 67-1 – § 67-3)
- Ch 82 — Elections (§ 82-1 – § 82-3)
- Ch 85 — Emergency Management (§ 85-1 – § 85-7)
- Ch 88 — False Alarms (§ 88-1 – § 88-3)
- Ch 90 — Farm and Forestry Commission (§ 90-1 – § 90-5)
- Ch 92 — Fees (§ 92-1)
- Ch 97 — Finance Committee (§ 97-1 – § 97-4)
- Ch 100 — Finances (§ 100-1 – § 100-6)
- Ch 131 — Illicit Discharge Detection and Elimination (§ 131-1 – § 131-17)
- Ch 134 — Junk and Secondhand Dealers (§ 134-1 – § 134-2)
- Ch 145 — Legal Affairs (§ 145-1 – § 145-2)
- Ch 150 — Licensing (§ 150-1 – § 150-5)
- Ch 156 — Littering (§ 156-1 – § 156-14)
- Ch 169 — Mobile Home Park Rent Control Board (§ 169-1 – § 169-8)
- Ch 185 — Noise (§ 185-1 – § 185-12)
- Ch 195 — Parks and Recreation Areas (§ 195-1 – § 195-5)
- Ch 200 — Peddling and Soliciting (§ 200-1 – § 200-11)
- Ch 206 — Personnel Policies (§ 206-1)
- Ch 211 — Planning Board (§ 211-1)
- Ch 246 — Seal (§ 246-1)
- Ch 252 — Sewers (§ 252-1 – § 252-3)
- Ch 270 — Solid Waste (§ 270-1 – § 270-8)
- Ch 280 — Stormwater Management and Erosion Control (§ 280-1 – § 280-10)
- Ch 284 — Streets and Sidewalks (§ 284-1 – § 284-17)
- Ch 285 — Stretch Energy Code (§ 285-1 – § 285-3)
- Ch 296 — Taxation (§ 296-1 – § 296-2)
- Ch 300 — Thin Film Plastic Bag Reduction (§ 300-1 – § 300-5)
- Ch 309 — Town Meetings (§ 309-1 – § 309-10)
- Ch 316 — Trespassing (§ 316-1 – § 316-2)
- Ch 327 — Vehicles, Removal of (§ 327-1 – § 327-2)
- Ch 333 — Vehicles, Unregistered or Junk (§ 333-1 – § 333-8)
- Ch 340 — Wetlands Protection (§ 340-1 – § 340-14)
- Ch 350 — Zoning (§ 350-1 – § 350-133)
- Ch 401 — Taxicabs (§ 401-1 – § 401-12)
- Ch 402 — Vehicles and Traffic (§ 402-1 – § 402-56)
- Ch 403 — Excavations (§ 403-1 – § 403-8)
- Ch 403A — Excavation and Trench Safety (§ 403A-1 – § 403A-8)
- Ch 404 — Fuel-Efficient Vehicle Policy (§ 404-1 – § 404-9)
- Ch 501 — Subdivision of Land (§ 501-1 – § 501-29)
- Ch 502 — Scenic Roads (§ 502-1 – § 502-8)
- Ch 601 — Communicable Diseases (§ 601-1 – § 601-4)
- Ch 603 — Sewers (§ 603-1 – § 603-7)
- Ch 604 — Solid Waste (§ 604-1 – § 604-10)
- Ch 605 — Tobacco Products (§ 605-1 – § 605-44)
- Ch 606 — Well Regulations (§ 606-1 – § 606-25)
- Ch 607 — Outdoor Woodburning Furnaces (§ 607-1 – § 607-9)
- Ch 701 — Cemetery Rules and Regulations (§ 701-1 – § 701-11)
- Ch 702 — Hawkers, Peddlers and Transient Merchants (§ 702-1 – § 702-11)
- Ch A801 — General Law Acceptances and Special Acts (§ A801-1 – § A801-3)
- Ch A802 — Town Manager
- Ch DL — Disposition List (§ DL-1)