If any vehicle is found upon any street or highway
in violation of any provisions of these rules and orders and the identity
of the driver cannot be determined, the owner or the person in whose
name such vehicle is registered shall be held prima facie responsible
for such violation.
A.
Any person violating any provision of any rule, regulation
or order regulating the parking of motor vehicles made by anybody
authorized to make the same shall be dealt with as provided in Chapter
176 of the Legislative Acts of 1935, amending MGL c. 90, § 20A,
and any person violating any of the rules and regulations applicable
to state highways made by the Department of Public Works, Commonwealth
of Massachusetts, under authority of MGL c. 85, § 2 shall
be subject to the penalty provided in said rules and regulations.
B.
Any person convicted of a violation of any rule, regulation
or order made hereunder, except as otherwise provided, shall be punished
by a fine not exceeding $20 for each offense.
A.
These rules are adopted with the intent that each
of them shall have force and effect separately and independently of
every other, except insofar as by express reference or necessary implication
any rule or any part of a rule is made dependent upon another rule
or part thereof.
B.
The provisions of these rules, so far as they are
the same in effect as those of any valid existing rules, orders or
regulations heretofore made by the Selectmen of Middleton relative
to or in connection with official signs, lights, markings, signal
systems or devices, shall be construed as a continuation thereof,
but all other existing rules, orders and regulations so made for the
regulation of vehicles are hereby expressly repealed. This repeal,
however, shall not affect any punishment or penalty imposed or complaint
or prosecution pending at the time of the passage hereof for an offense
committed under any of the valid rules, orders or regulations hereby
repealed.
