The City of Somerville has just adopted a new sidewalk shoveling ordinance which not only increases fine, but will mark scofflaws’ properties with large “Scarlet Letter” inspired placards, Wicked Local Somerville reports.

… inspectional services will put “large, strikingly colored door markers on the properties of offenders,” she said. “[The markers] will not only bring attention to the property owner but will make the neighbors aware of the citation that are being serviced to such properties.

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