Littleton Board of Health Approves New Portable Toilet Regulation on 3-0 Vote

LITTLETON — May 22, 2024 — Littleton Board of Health approves portable toilet regulation, tables well rules and code of conduct. The three-member board voted 3-0 Wednesday to enact the town's first portable toilet regulation, establishing placement restrictions, a five-day maintenance threshold, escalating fines starting at $25 and rising to $100 per day for repeat violations, and re-inspection procedures triggered by complaints or extended-use approvals. Health Agent Francis Daigle assembled the draft from comparable municipal codes and will file the final text with the town clerk for a bylaw number. A separate private well regulation was continued to June 12 after Daigle identified that the wrong document version — an unedited state DEP model — had been distributed in the meeting packet. The board also deferred action on a proposed code of conduct drawn from a Select Board template, with the chair volunteering to revise the language for a Board of Health context ahead of the June 12 meeting; member Kevin Baker flagged a removal-from-meeting provision as potentially unnecessary given the board's history, while member Gino Fratoloni said the value of any code lies in setting clear expectations: "Enforcement of the code of conduct — that is good, to let people know."