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NON-CRIMINAL DISPOSITION BYLAW APPENDIX A - FINES
BYLAW
FINE SCHEDULE
FINE ALLOWED
ENFORCEMENT AGENCY
Alcoholic Beverages
1st and each successive offense
$50.00
Police Officers
Animals
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
Bicycles
1st offense
$5.00
Police Officers
2nd offense
$5.00
3rd offense
$10.00
Conservation Land Rules and Regulations
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Dogs
1st offense
Warning
Dog Officer and Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Firearms
1st offense
$50.00
Police Officers
House Numbering
1st offense
Warning
Building Inspector
2nd offense
$50.00
3rd and each successive offense
$100.00
Internal Combustion Engines on White Pond
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Motor Boats
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Outdoor Fire and Camping
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
$50.00
Pedestrian Control Regulations
1st , 2nd, 3rd offense
$1.00
Police Officers
4th and each successive offense
$2.00
Peeping
1st and each successive offense
$50.00
Police Officers
Private Digging of Roads
1st  offense
$50.00
Town Engineer or his/her designee
2nd and each successive offense
$100.00
Public Parks, Ways, Playgrounds and Places
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Sale of Tobacco to Minors
1st offense
$50.00
Public Health Administrator or his/her designee
2nd offense
$100.00
3rd offense
$200.00
4th offense
$300.00
5th and each successive offense
$300.00
Sale of Tobacco without Tobacco Sales Permit
All offenses
$200.00
Constables, Police Officers, Chief Sanitarian
Sanitary Landfill  Dumping of trash by Concord resident without permit
1st offense
Warning
2nd and each successive offense
$50.00
Dumping of trash from  outside Concord
1st offense
$25.00
2nd and each successive offense
$300.00
Dumping of
restricted/prohibited     materials
1st offense
$25.00
Police Officers
2nd and each successive offense
$300.00
Dumping of hazardous waste
1st offense
$100.00
2nd offense
$200.00
3rd and each successive offense
$300.00
Dumping of trash in       unauthorized areas
1st offense
$25.00
2nd and each successive offense
$50.00
Sealer of Weights and
Measures, Rules & Regulations Enforced by)
1st offense
$25.00
Sealer of Weights and Measures or Public Health Administrator
2nd offense
$50.00
3rd offense
$100.00
4th offense
$200.00
5th and each subsequent offense
$300.00
Signs and Advertising    Devices
1st offense
Warning
Building Inspector
2nd offense, 90 days  after notice
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Smoking in Public Places
1st and each successive offense
$25.00
Police Officers
Smoking in Food Establishments
1st offense
$25.00
Board of Health
2nd offense
$50.00
3rd offense
$100.00
4th offense
$200.00
Each successive offense
$300.00
Snow and Ice
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$50.00
Each successive offense
$100.00
Snow and Recreational Vehicles
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Soliciting
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Taxicab Rules and Regulations 
1st and each successive offense
$20.00
Police Officers
Underground Fuel Storage Systems
1st and each successive offense
Up to $100.00
Fire Chief
Unregistered Motor Vehicles
1st offense
Warning
Police Officers
2nd offense-30 days after warning
$25.00
3rd and each successive offense
$50.00
Use of public trash or recycling receptacles for the disposal of household refuse
1st offense
$25.00
Public Works Director or his/her Designee and/or Concord Police
2nd offense and all subsequent offenses
$50.00
Use of public trash or recycling receptacles by employees of business enterprises or other privately owned establishments for the disposal of business refuse
1st offense
$25.00
Public Works Director or his/her Designee and/or Concord Police
2nd offense and all subsequent offenses
$50.00
Use of commercial or municipal disposal dumpster or container belonging to another without the consent of the owner or person with legal authority
1st offense
$25.00
Public Works Director or his/her Designee and/or Concord Police
2nd offense and all subsequent offenses
$50.00
Water Use Restriction
1st offense
$50.00
Police Officers
2nd and each successive offense
$100.00
Zoning
1st offense
Warning
Building Inspector
2nd offense
$50.00
3rd and each successive offense
$100.00
Article 22, Town Meeting, March 1973  

Article 47, Town Meeting, April 1984  

                              Selectmen's Minutes, February 4, 1985 (Regulation and Selectmen's Minutes, March 25, 1985  

                                                                                                                             Articles 51 & 52, Town Meeting, April 1996  

Article 23, Town Meeting, April 1999  

Article 50, Town Meeting, May 2000  

Article 67, Annual Town Meeting, April 29, 2002  

Article 49, Annual Town Meeting, April 26, 2004  

Article 49, Annual Town Meeting, April 27, 2005  

Editor’s Note:  Although the Non-Criminal Disposition Bylaw was adopted by Town Meeting,
the Regulations and the original Appendix A (and earlier amendments to Appendix A)
 were adopted by the Board of Selectmen.  It is unclear why subsequent
 amendments have been brought to Town Meeting for approval.)                                            


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