For the purpose of these rules and orders, the words and phrases
used herein shall have the following meanings except in those instances
where the context clearly indicates a different meaning:
An area in the roadway set aside for the boarding of or alighting
from and the parking of buses.
That portion of a roadway ordinarily included within the
prolongation or connection of curblines and property lines at intersections
or at any portion of a roadway clearly indicated for pedestrian crossing
by lines on the road surface or by other markings or signs.
Vehicles of the Fire Department (Fire Patrol), police vehicles,
ambulances and emergency vehicles of federal, state and municipal
departments or public-service corporations when the latter are responding
to an emergency in relation to the Police or Fire Department.
Any procession of mourners properly identified as such accompanying
the remains of a human body.
A longitudinal division of a roadway into a strip of sufficient
width to accommodate the passage of a single line of vehicles.
Any officer, any investigator, examiner or inspector of the
Registry of Motor Vehicles, any constable or special officer, provided
that he has his badge of office displayed over his left breast and
upon his outer garment.
That portion of a curbing, the painting of which has been
authorized by the Board of Selectmen and which complies with the standards
of the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts
and has the written approval of said Department.
Any painted line, marking or marker placed in or upon any
way by authority of the Board of Selectmen and which complies with
the standards of the Department of Public Works and has the written
approval of said Department.
All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not
inconsistent with these rules and orders and which conform to the
standards prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts and placed or erected by authority of a public body
or official having jurisdiction for the purpose of guiding, directing,
warning or regulating traffic.
All signals conforming to the standards as prescribed by
the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts,
not inconsistent with these rules and orders, placed or erected by
authority of a public body or official having jurisdiction for the
purpose of directing or warning traffic.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for the purpose of and while actually engaged in
loading or unloading or in obedience to an officer or traffic signs
or signals or while making emergency repairs or, if disabled, while
arrangements are being made to move such vehicle.
Any person afoot or riding on a conveyance moved by human
power, except bicycles or tricycles.
Any intersection of ways with a railroad right-of-way.
That portion of a street or highway between the regularly
established curblines or that part, exclusive of shoulders, improved
and intended to be used for vehicular traffic.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway for the exclusive
use of pedestrians and which has been indicated by signs, lines or
markings having the written approval of the Department of Public Works,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
An area in the roadway set aside for the accommodation of
commercial and transient vehicular traffic.
That portion of a street or highway set aside for pedestrian
travel.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
An area in the roadway in which certain taxicabs are required
to park while waiting to be engaged.
Pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles, streetcars
or other conveyances, either single or together, while using any street
or highway for the purpose of travel.
Any area along any way, other than an intersecting way, at
which drivers are to be controlled by traffic control signals.
Any device using colored lights which conforms to the standards
as prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, whether manually, electrically or mechanically operated,
by which traffic may be alternately directed to stop and to proceed.
Any area or space set aside within a roadway which is not
intended for use by vehicular traffic.
Every device in, upon or by which any person or property
is or may be transported or drawn upon a street or highway, except
devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails
or tracks.
