[Amended 8-10-2016 by Bylaw Amendment 16-765]
A. 
The DPW Director or his designee is hereby authorized, and as to those signs and signals required hereunder it shall be his duty, to place and maintain or cause to be placed and maintained all official traffic signs, signals, marking and safety zones. All signs, signals and safety zones shall conform to the standards prescribed by the Department of Public Works of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
B. 
Sections 170-6 and 170-7 of Article II and § 170-15 of Article IV, relating to parking, shall be effective as to any area in a street only during such times as official signs are erected and maintained in such area, located so as to be easily visible to approaching drivers and notifying them as to the governing provisions.
A. 
No person or corporation shall place, maintain or display upon or in view of any street any unofficial device, sign, signal, curb marking or street marking which purports to be or is an imitation of or resembles an official traffic device, sign, signal, curb marking or street marking or which attempts to direct the movement of traffic or which hides from view an official sign, signal, marking or device. The Chief of Police is hereby empowered to remove without notice every such prohibited sign, signal, marking or device.
B. 
Obedience to traffic signs, signals and markings. No driver of any vehicle shall disobey the instructions of any official traffic control signal, sign, marking, marker or legend, unless so directed by an officer.
C. 
All information or warning signs, all traffic control signals, traffic islands or other traffic devices, all pavement or other markings shall be designed, located and operated in accordance with the standards of the Massachusetts Highway Department for such devices.
[Added 1-5-1994 by Bylaw Amendment 93-250]
D. 
The Franklin Police Department is the enforcement agency for traffic regulations established in accordance with the agreement and the traffic devices installed in connection therewith.
[Added 1-5-1994 by Bylaw Amendment 93-250]
[Amended 8-10-2016 by Bylaw Amendment 16-765]
No person shall willfully deface, injure, move, obstruct or interfere with any official traffic sign, signal or marking, and any person so doing shall be liable to a penalty of $50 for each and every offense.