Plymouth County runs no trash collection. Each community handles its own: Brockton offers municipal curbside, while Plymouth, Marshfield, Scituate, Duxbury, and Wareham rely on private haulers a town board of health licenses under MGL c.111 §31.
There is no county collection anywhere in Plymouth County; Massachusetts counties hold no waste authority. Brockton provides municipal curbside pickup on a fixed weekly route. The towns work differently. In Plymouth, residents contract a private hauler licensed by the Public Health Department and set trash curbside by 7:00 AM on the collection day, or use the Beaver Dam Road transfer station with a sticker. Marshfield, Scituate, Duxbury, and Wareham run transfer stations or their own hauler contracts. Board of health licensing of haulers rests on MGL c.111 §31, which lets local boards make reasonable health regulations governing collection.
Setting out trash before a contracted hauler exists, or dumping instead of using a licensed service, draws a board of health citation. Fines run to $500 per day under the state sanitary code.
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Plymouth County, MA
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No Plymouth County rule governs garage-sale signs; towns handle them through local sign bylaws. On your own lawn a yard-sale sign is generally fine, but a si...
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Massachusetts has no statewide just-cause eviction law, and no Plymouth County town can add one. A landlord ends a tenancy at will with 30 days' written noti...
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Rent control is illegal across every Plymouth County community. Massachusetts voters banned it in 1994 through Question 9, now codified as MGL c.40P §4: no c...
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