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 has the written approval
of the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Any painted line, legend, marking or marker of any description
painted or placed upon any way which purports to direct or regulate
traffic and which has been authorized by the Board of Selectmen and
which has the written approval of the Department of Public Works,
Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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.
All signs, markings and devices, other than signals, not
inconsistent with these rules and orders, 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.
The standing of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise
than temporarily for them 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 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.
The entire width between property lines of every way open
to the use of the public for purposes of travel.
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.
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.
